Population Based Intervention to Prevent Obesity in Kindergartens (TigerKids)

Summary

Behavioral intervention at Kindergarten setting aiming at increased fruit and vegetable consumption, decreased intake of high energy foods, snacks, sweets, increased intake of water/low energy drinks, decreased intake of high energy drinks. Physical activity should be more than 1 hour/day and TV/media consumption less than 1 hour/day.

Main questions are:

Do children differ in intervention and control kindergartens according to their nutrition behaviour? Do children in the intervention kindergartens have a higher physical training than such in the control kindergartens? Data were collected with a standardised questionnaire.

Do children differ in intervention and control kindergartens according to their body mass index?

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

attitude change

TigerKids: setting based prevention program to reduce obesity risk factors in children

BEHAVIORAL

adiposity prevention program

The behavioral intervention aimed at modifying physical activity and food and drink choices at the kindergarten setting

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Child Health Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Bavarian State Ministry of Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Institute for Social Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Munich

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• State Institute of Early Childhood Research, Munich

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• AOK.Die Gesundheitskasse

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Research Centre for Physical Education and Sports of Children and Adolescents, Karlsruhe

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Berthold Koletzko, Prof. · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Max Age

7 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2003-10-31

Primary Completion

2006-05-31

Completion

2009-07-31