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The System Fammeal With Tailored Recommendations and Gamification for Parents to Counteract Childhood Obesity

NCT03881280 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2020-09-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators aim to test an evidence-based intervention, allocated to a mobile app designed to parents and their children with 3 to 6 years old, identified by family doctors or nurses at well-child care visits as overweight or obese for age.

This intervention aims to improve parent's perceptions and attitudes regarding children's weight status and food intake, leading to better dietary intake and children's' eating behaviors through positive parental child-feeding practices. In this study, the investigators aim to assess the feasibility of the intervention and explore its impact on the beliefs and attitudes of parents.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parenting education program

Parenting education program through the app Fammeal. It includes educational content, tailored to parents and centered on positive parenting child-feeding practices. The app will also include a virtual-pet game for children, in order to help them self-regulate their intake. Through the app, parents will: * Fill in a registration questionnaire, which will tailor recommendations. * Receive information and video content recommendations. * Set goals related to their child's lifestyle and tracking progress. * Earn points by watching the contents. * Invite children to play a serious game. * Exchange messages with other users. The investigators created a support website that connects to the main server to get data gathered from the mobile app and game.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Administração Regional de Saúde do Norte, Portugal

    collaborator OTHER

  • Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde do Grande Porto III - Maia / Valongo, Portugal

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universidade do Porto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lisa Afonso · Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
36 Months
Max Age
83 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-06
Primary Completion
2019-05-01
Completion
2019-06-14

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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