Fostering healthy dietary habits through a mobile-health intervention targeting toddlers' food and eating environment

Conditions

Healthy dietary habits and long-term health and wellbeing Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Frøydis Nordgård Vik, Erik Grasaas, Maaike E. M. Polspoel, Margrethe Røed, Elisabet Rudjord Hillesund et al. (6 authors)

BMC Public Health2021-04-2013 citations

10.1186/s12889-021-10757-1

Effect of a Parent-Focused eHealth Intervention on Children’s Fruit, Vegetable, and Discretionary Food Intake (Food4toddlers): Randomized Controlled Trial

Margrethe Røed, Anine Christine Medin, Frøydis Nordgård Vik, Elisabet Rudjord Hillesund, Wendy Van Lippevelde et al. (7 authors)

Journal of Medical Internet Research2021-02-1634 citations

10.2196/18311

Process Evaluation of an eHealth Intervention (Food4toddlers) to Improve Toddlers' Diet: Randomized Controlled Trial

Margrethe Røed, Frøydis Nordgård Vik, Elisabet Rudjord Hillesund, Wendy Van Lippevelde, Anine Christine Medin et al. (6 authors)

JMIR Human Factors2020-07-065 citations

10.2196/18171

The Food4toddlers study - study protocol for a web-based intervention to promote healthy diets for toddlers: a randomized controlled trial.

Røed M, Hillesund ER, Vik FN, Van Lippevelde W, Øverby NC.

2019-05-1411 citations

10.1186/s12889-019-6915-x

Interventions

The overall objective of this study is to develop, implement, and evaluate the effect of a e-health intervention, Food4toddlers, that aims to promote healthy dietary habits in toddlers through targeti

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Children aged from 12 to 18 months during the intervention period 2. Parents of these children

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Parents who cannot speak and write Norwegian

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Child diet quality and food variety, assessed using food frequency questions regarding core- and non-core food at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Eating environment (two levels): 1.1. Parental feeding practices (under/over-eating, hunger, infant cues, feeding attitudes, practices, perceptions/concern regarding weight), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 1.2. Family meal setting (frequency of meals, meal distractions), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 2. Food environment (two levels): 2.1. Food choice and awareness of food environment (planning, doing groceries, what influences food choice), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 2.2. Availability and visibility of food in the home (availability and visibility of non-core and core foods), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 3. Food preparation and planning, assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 4. Weight and length assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Eating environment (two levels): 1.1. Parental feeding practices (under/over-eating, hunger, infant cues, feeding attitudes, practices, perceptions/concern regarding weight), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 1.2. Family meal setting (frequency of meals, meal distractions), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 2. Food environment (two levels): 2.1. Food choice and awareness of food environment (planning, doing groceries, what influences food choice), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 2.2. Availability and visibility of food in the home (availability and visibility of non-core and core foods), assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 3. Food preparation and planning, assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months 4. Weight and length assessed using closed form survey at inclusion, 18, 24, and 48 months

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Countries

Norway

Outcome results

None listed