None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
PICNIC aims to influence parents feeding practices and infant/child quality. The PICNIC study is a peer education model with peer educators supported by a website and social media. New parents with an infant aged 0-2 living on the Mid North Coast of NSW who consent to the project will receive an intervention over 12 months including online workshops, discussion groups, participant forums, and social media messaging, in view of on-sharing feeding information within their social and family networks. This study will use a progressive recruitment strategy within health services, through previous participants and online. Parents feeding practices will be measured when they start the project then again at 6 and 12 months to measure any changes. Parents feeding practices at 12 months will be compared with population data. Participants will complete a diet survey at 24 months after they first participated in the study and this will be compared against population data. Participants will work together with the research team (participatory action research) to guide ongoing intervention characteristics, to ensure modification and adaptation of the project model in partnership, consideration of participant and group characteristics. Over the intervention period the research team will provide opportunities for networking, consultation and input into all aspects of the program. Data will be collected in a number of methods including focus groups, participant correspondence, including social media forum activity.
Interventions
The PICNIC intervention is a peer to peer approach supported by an online and social media strategy. Parents with an infant aged 0-2 years will receive training support and resources on infant/child nutrition and feeding practices to on-share within their parent and social networks over 12 months.
The 12-month participant intervention consists of a number of support strategies of which the introductory workshop is the only prerequisite for study involvement and other strategies are opt-in only
The PICNIC intervention is a peer to peer approach supported by an online and social media strategy. Parents with an infant aged 0-2 years will receive training support and resources on infant/child nutrition and feeding practices to on-share within their parent and social networks over 12 months. The 12-month participant intervention consists of a number of support strategies of which the introductory workshop is the only prerequisite for study involvement and other strategies are opt-in only, at participants own discretion. Participant’s attendance and engagement with support strategies is monitored where possible. This includes attendance at participant meetings, support requests and Facebook closed group participation. Website analytics and social media page performance data is monitored and analysed, although this is inclusive of the wider parent audience outside of consenting participants. All PICNIC intervention strategies cover: • Introduction of Solids • Responsive Feeding • Australian Guide to Healthy Eating • Food Exposure • Division of Responsibility • Food Rewards • Pressure to eat • Food Restriction • Meal environment and structure • Food Role Modelling • Common Feeding issues • Healthy Growth A two-hour online introductory workshop is a group education session capped at 10 participants run by research team Accredited Practising Dietitians. The workshop covers nutrition and feeding content, research overview, navigation of the support strategies (website and social media), data collection and project history. One hour participant meetings are run monthly with participants scheduled into one 4 weeks after introductory workshop with the opportunity to attend more over the 12 month intervention period. Workshops are facilitated by an Accredited Practising Dietitian from the research team and discussion/topics are driven by participants. Participants are encouraged to join the Facebook Closed Group, a forum for questions and discussion, to provide participant updates and receive feeding nutrition/messages posted 4-5 times per week developed by research team Accredited Practising Dietitians. Participants are encouraged to follow the open Facebook and Instagram support pages and to circulate to their social circles. 4 - 5 feeding/nutrition messages each week developed by research team Accredited Practising Dietitians. A project content website has been developed to support participants and other parents within participants’ social networks, with nutrition and feeding content. In the co-design of the intervention parents requested an online repository of project information. The website contains text, video and images which parents navigate on their terms.
Sponsors
Richard Ball
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Parents and primary carers: - with a child aged zero to two years at the time of recruitment. - 18 years and over. - Live with the Mid North Coast Local Health District area, New South Wales, Australia
Exclusion criteria
Parents and primary carers with only children whose nutrition/feeding are influenced by a medical condition, speech pathology, disability, who are unable to understand written and spoken English .infant aged from birth to two years, aged under 18 years live outside the Mid North Coast Local Health District.
Outcome results
None listed