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Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity

NCT01565525 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 306

Last updated 2012-03-28

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Summary

The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Maternal focused intervention

This is a series of information given to mothers at child's well child visits (6 in all) starting at the newborn visit focused in maternal eating habits, using the mother as a potential 'agent of change' for the family and infant in modeling healthy eating habits.

BEHAVIORAL

Ounce of Prevention

This intervention is given via a series of handouts given to mothers at their child's well visit from newborn period to one year of age, focusing on serving size and frequency and the introduction of new foods.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nationwide Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Judith Groner, MD · Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus Ohio

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Weeks
Max Age
2 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-07-31
Completion
2007-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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