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Proactve Assessment of Overweight Risk During Infancy

NCT02314494 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 83

Last updated 2016-07-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children who are above healthy weight are more likely to be ill and to miss time off school. Being overweight in childhood can also sow the seeds for health problems in later life such as heart disease and diabetes. Most overweight children become overweight adults. One solution is to try to prevent children becoming overweight by intervening very early in life. The risk factors for childhood overweight are known and this project aims to facilitate parents' (and other carers') understanding about this for their infant and to enable them to access intervention. UK health visitors (public health nurses) will use an interactive, multimedia programme (Proactive Assessment of Overweight Risk during infancy (ProAsk)), with parents to calculate their infant's risk and to discuss strategies for risk reduction as appropriate. Health visitors will be trained to communicate obesity risk and in Motivational Interviewing techniques to enable them to offer intervention to parents of infants identified as at risk.

A feasibility study of ProAsk will take place in two health provider organisations in the UK. The purpose of this is to a) determine the acceptability and utility of the ProAsk intervention with health visitors and parents and b) gather information to inform the trial design and data collection procedures for a future Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT).

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ProAsk

The intervention is a computer programme ProActive Assessment of Overweight Risk to identify infants at risk of developing childhood overweight and obesity. Parents of infants identified as at risk will be offered strategies for prevention by UK health visitors (public health nurses)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Nottingham

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  • University of Lincoln

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  • University of Cambridge

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  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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  • Anglia Ruskin University

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Principal Investigators

  • Sarah Redsell, PhD · Anglia Ruskin University

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Weeks
Max Age
12 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

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