Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study

Summary

The purpose of this study was to test internet and mobile-based applications to support motivating lifestyle counseling to promote healthy eating habits of the mothers and their spouses expecting first child. The feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated in the pilot.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intensified dietary counseling

The intervention is completed by public health nurses who will be trained to provide family-centered empowering and motivational lifestyle counseling at the normal health check visit. Parents expecting child will use web application developed for nutritional counseling. Web application consists of dietary questionnaire from which the parents will receive immediately automatic feedback. Feedback concerns the quality of diet in relation to the Finnish nutrition recommendations. Feedback will be given in an encouraging format. Own targets of food changes can also be recorded in the application, and the application can be used to monitor how they are achieved.

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile application

Mothers expecting child will use mobile application. Mobile application consists of text, audio and video exercises, which are aimed to increase the psychological flexibility and thus mental and physical well-being.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tampere University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Helsinki

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Jyvaskyla

  collaborator OTHER

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

  collaborator OTHER

• The Finnish Heart Association

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The National Consumer Research Centre

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Suvi I Virtanen, Professor · Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2013-04-30

Primary Completion

2015-03-31

Completion

2015-05-31

Countries

• Finland

Study Locations