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Conditions
Brief summary
This study will assess the effectiveness of nutrition education in changing children's food choices and dietary intake. We expect that brief nutrition education asking parents to switch their children's dairy products from regular to reduced or low fat varieties will significant benefit the healthiness of their children's overall diet.
Interventions
Intervention: Parents will receive individualized nutrition education about the significance of the recommended dietary changes, creating a supportive home environment, overcoming barriers and resistance to change. Parents will be provided with dietary advice including explicit written and pictorial information on appropriate dairy products to purchase. The education sessions will be delivered during four 30 minute appointments over the first 12 weeks of the intervention (weeks 1,4,8,12). The in
Intervention: Parents will receive individualized nutrition education about the significance of the recommended dietary changes, creating a supportive home environment, overcoming barriers and resistance to change. Parents will be provided with dietary advice including explicit written and pictorial information on appropriate dairy products to purchase. The education sessions will be delivered during four 30 minute appointments over the first 12 weeks of the intervention (weeks 1,4,8,12). The intervention will be delivered to the parent only (children will not be required to attend the intervention sessions).
Sponsors
CSIRO Human Nutrition
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Healthy children aged between 4 and 13 years. Children and early teens have been selected as parent-led dietary change is appropriate across this age group (detailed below). Additionally this age group is an appropriate target for substitution, rather than ‘eat more’ dairy food message. Child is a regular fat “dairy consumer” “Dairy consumer” is defined as a child who consumes a minimum of 2 serves of dairy foods (milk, cheese, yoghurt, dairy desserts, ice-cream) on the day prior to study eligibility screening AND Child usually consumes regular fat milk and cheese. Child living in the Adelaide Metropolitan area. Child able to visit study site on 4 occasions over the study period and give informed and written assent Parent/ caregiver with adequate written and spoken English, prepared to attend all intervention and assessment sessions (visit study site on 6 occasions and participate in 6 data collection phone calls) and give informed and written consent (parental consent and on behalf of child) .
Exclusion criteria
Sibling enrolled in the study (Note: Parents will be asked to implement the intervention as a family, but nominate one child for study assessment to prevent any clustering effect) Child consuming any reduced-fat or low-fat milk or cheese, and less than 2 serves of dairy foods per day Child has any allergy or intolerance to dairy products Any pre-existing medical condition which affects dietary intake
Outcome results
None listed