Reduction of food-related fears and promotion of healthy dietary habits in children

Food courage to reduce food neophobia and promote healthy dietary habits among preschool children to prevent future overweight and obesity: a cluster randomised study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN74823448

Enrollment

Registered

2015-01-29

Start date

2014-12-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-01-05

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Conditions

Dietary habits, food neophobia, parental and kindergarten feeding practices and child obesity Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine Food neophobia

Interventions

1. The intervention is primarily aimed at the children and the kindergarten personnel

some parts of the intervention are also aimed at the parents 2. The intervention will be for 9 weeks and a pause for 3 weeks 3. Kindergarten personnel will attend one o

the pedagogical leader will attend two classes 4. There are three main elements in the intervention in the kindergartens 4.1. Kindergarten personnel will use a pedagogi

there will be detailed descriptions about how this session should be done on the different days during the intervention weeks 4.2. The kindergarten will prepare and serve hot lunch fro

the parents will be given short postcard messages corresponding to the ten meal principles in the kindergarten 5. There will also be a dialogue with the parents regarding what the chil

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Born in 2012 2. Attending the selected kindergartens in Agder, Norway

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Parents do not understand the Norwegian language

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Food neophobia: measured with the Food Neophobia Scale (relevant items) and test of willingness to try known and unknown foods (P Pliner. Development of measures of food neophobia in children. Appetite 1994; 23: 147–63.) at at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 2. Parental and kindergarten personnel feeding practices: measured with the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (Musher-Eizenman D, Holub S. Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire: validation of a new measure of parental feeding practices. J Pediatr Psychol 2007; 32: 960–72.); parental feeding practices measured at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old and kindergarten personnel feeding practices measured at baseline and 4 months and 10 months after baseline	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Food neophobia: measured with the Food Neophobia Scale (relevant items) and test of willingness to try known and unknown foods (P Pliner. Development of measures of food neophobia in children. Appetite 1994; 23: 147–63.) at at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 2. Parental and kindergarten personnel feeding practices: measured with the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (Musher-Eizenman D, Holub S. Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire: validation of a new measure of parental feeding practices. J Pediatr Psychol 2007; 32: 960–72.); parental feeding practices measured at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old and kindergarten personnel feeding practices measured at baseline and 4 months and 10 months after baseline

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Weight, measured with a digital scale (Seca 877) at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 2. Height, measured with a portable stadiometer (Seca 217) at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 3. Body-mass index for children (iso-BMI): calculated according to the Extended International (IOTF) Body Mass Index Cut-Offs for Thinness, Overweight and Obesity in Children (http://www.worldobesity.org/aboutobesity/child-obesity/newchildcutoffs/) at baseline and 4 months, 10 months after baseline and when the child is 4 years old 4. Selected dietary habits (selected food items in a food frequency questionnaire), assessed at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Weight, measured with a digital scale (Seca 877) at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 2. Height, measured with a portable stadiometer (Seca 217) at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old 3. Body-mass index for children (iso-BMI): calculated according to the Extended International (IOTF) Body Mass Index Cut-Offs for Thinness, Overweight and Obesity in Children (http://www.worldobesity.org/aboutobesity/child-obesity/newchildcutoffs/) at baseline and 4 months, 10 months after baseline and when the child is 4 years old 4. Selected dietary habits (selected food items in a food frequency questionnaire), assessed at baseline, 4 months and 10 months after baseline, and when the child is 4 years old

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Countries

Norway

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 13, 2026