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The Impact of the "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" ( NEHLM) on Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Dental Health Among Children From Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families in Beer Sheva

NCT01071551 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 258

Last updated 2010-02-19

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Summary

Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is related to poor physical health, obesity, elevated cardiovascular risk factors and iron deficiency anemia. We plan to offer a comprehensive framework allowing the "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) among a low SES Kindergarten children. The model offered is designed to take into account the current economic status of the child's family. We shall conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the intervention.

Our main objective:

To compare the influence of the intervention on changes in food consumption, physical activity and ,and caries rates in the children in kindergartens where it is applied versus the control kindergartens.

The research hypothesis:

Integrative Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model (NEHLM) will improve health behaviors among children and parents in comparison to control intervention (physical activity only).

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Life-style intervention

The "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) is an Integrative model covering variety of lifestyle issues such as nutrition, dental care, and physical activity. The model will be applied to kindergartens and a sample of their parents. Children participating will be given 10 lessons in nutrition, 5 lessons in dental-care and 20 physical activity lessons. Parents for children in this group will be given 2 nutrition-education meetings and a meeting with a dental clinician.2 additional meetings will be held for parents and children together, one in nutrition and one in dental-care.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity only

Children allocated to this group will attend 20 physical activity classes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Soroka University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Natalya Bilenko, MD, M.PH · Ben Gurion Universty of the Negev Israel

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
48 Months
Max Age
84 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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