Intervention for the Prevention of Obesity in Preschool

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate an intervention focused to change feeding practices and patterns of physical activity of preschool children through providing motivational counseling to the mother. The aim is to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years 11 months with risk of overweight or with overweight.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Eating and physical activity counseling

The parents of overweight children will be invited to attend a total of 6 group sessions (the group will be comprised of 6 children with their parents) on a weekly basis, in which 5 aspects will be dealt with 1) Dietary culture, risk-benefit practices, 2) The process of feeding (acquisition/preparation/service Eating behaviors), 3) Physical activity habits, 4) Importance of weighing/measuring oneself and its meaning, 5) feedback and evaluations. These aspects and contents will be distributed throughout the 6 sessions. There will be two more individual session, at 3 and 6 months respectively, for the reinforcement of recommendations provided for the modification of dietary behaviors and physical activity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez

  collaborator OTHER

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

  collaborator OTHER

• Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

  collaborator NIH

• Inter-American Development Bank

  collaborator OTHER

• Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Guelph

  collaborator OTHER

• Coordinación de Investigación en Salud, Mexico

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Gloria Martínez Andrade, Master · Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

• Ricardo Pérez Cuevas, Doctor · Inter-American Development Bank

• Elsie Taveras, Doctor · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

• Matt Gillman, Doctor · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

24 Months

Max Age

59 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-03-31

Primary Completion

2013-04-30

Completion

2013-06-30

Countries

• Mexico

Study Locations