Early Food for Future Health: an E-health intervention aiming to promote healthy food habits from early childhood

Conditions

Dietary habits in early childhood, parental feeding styles and practices and child obesity Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Christine Helle, Elisabet Rudjord Hillesund, Andrew K. Wills, Nina Cecilie Øverby

PLoS ONE2019-08-2324 citations

10.1371/journal.pone.0220437

Evaluation of an eHealth intervention aiming to promote healthy food habits from infancy -the Norwegian randomized controlled trial Early Food for Future Health.

Helle C, Hillesund ER, Wills AK, Øverby NC.

2019-01-0346 citations

10.1186/s12966-018-0763-4

Early food for future health: a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of an eHealth intervention aiming to promote healthy food habits from early childhood.

Helle C, Hillesund ER, Omholt ML, Øverby NC.

2017-09-2030 citations

10.1186/s12889-017-4731-8

Interventions

Upon completion of baseline measures, participants will be randomly assigned into either intervention or control group. When the child is six months old, the participants in the inter

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Mothers and fathers of children between the age of 3 and 5 months

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Child born before gestation week 38 and with birth-weight less than 2500 g 2. Parents do not understand the Norwegian language

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Infant primary outcome measures: 1. Food intake and food variance: measured at 5, 13, 24 and 48 months by a Food Frequency Questionnaire developed for this study 2.Food preferences: measured at 13 months by a Food Preferences Questionnaire developed for this study, based on Wardle, Guthrie et al. 2001 3. Food neophobia: measured at 13, 24 and 48 months by The Child Food Neophobia Scale (Pliner & Hobden, 1992) 4. Eating behaviour: measured at 5 months by BEBQ; The Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (Llewellyn, van Jaarsveld, Johnson, Carnell and Wardle 2011); measured at 13 months by CEBQ, The Child Eating behaviour Questionnaire (Wardle et.al. 2001) Parent primary outcome measures: 1. Feeding style and feeding practices: measured at 5 and 13 months by The Infant Feeding Questionnaire (Baughcum et al. 2001) 2. Feeding self efficacy: measured at 6 and 12 months by The Feeding Self-efficacy scale (Horodynski & Stommel 2005) 3. Parenting style: measured at 5 and 13 months by The Infancy Parenting Styles Questionnaire (Arnott & Brown 2013) 4. Parenting style/control-oriented parenting: measured at 12 months by five items from The Parental Locus of Control Scale (Campis et al. 1986) 5. Making more homemade baby food in the weaning period: measured by a Frequency Questionnaire developed for this study	—

Measure

Time frame

Infant primary outcome measures: 1. Food intake and food variance: measured at 5, 13, 24 and 48 months by a Food Frequency Questionnaire developed for this study 2.Food preferences: measured at 13 months by a Food Preferences Questionnaire developed for this study, based on Wardle, Guthrie et al. 2001 3. Food neophobia: measured at 13, 24 and 48 months by The Child Food Neophobia Scale (Pliner & Hobden, 1992) 4. Eating behaviour: measured at 5 months by BEBQ; The Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (Llewellyn, van Jaarsveld, Johnson, Carnell and Wardle 2011); measured at 13 months by CEBQ, The Child Eating behaviour Questionnaire (Wardle et.al. 2001) Parent primary outcome measures: 1. Feeding style and feeding practices: measured at 5 and 13 months by The Infant Feeding Questionnaire (Baughcum et al. 2001) 2. Feeding self efficacy: measured at 6 and 12 months by The Feeding Self-efficacy scale (Horodynski & Stommel 2005) 3. Parenting style: measured at 5 and 13 months by The Infancy Parenting Styles Questionnaire (Arnott & Brown 2013) 4. Parenting style/control-oriented parenting: measured at 12 months by five items from The Parental Locus of Control Scale (Campis et al. 1986) 5. Making more homemade baby food in the weaning period: measured by a Frequency Questionnaire developed for this study

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Infant secondary outcome measures: 1. Weight and height: measured at 5, 13, 24 and 48 months. Self-reported/measured at the scheduled visits to the child health centre 2. Child behaviour: internalizing and externalizing behaviour ( Jacka et al. 2013), measured by questions from The Child Behaviour Checklist Questionnaire at 24 and 48 months	—

Countries

Norway

Outcome results

None listed