Childhood obesity and overweight prevention
Conditions
Interventions
Interventiongroup:
Parents who receive a folder and the E-learning module “Making a healthy deal with your child” about how to stimulate their child to eat healthy and have enough physical activity
Sponsors
Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Parents of children from group 6 and 7 from primary schools, who participate in the already excisting programme 'KERNgezond' in the nothern part of province Limburg, in the Netherlands. The inclusion criteria for the children are that their parents participate in our research.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Insufficient understanding of the Dutch language.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changing dietary and physical activity behaviour in children The differences (between the intervention group and the control group) in changes in dietary and physical activity behaviour of children between baseline and t=1 and t=2. These dietary and physical activity behaviours are measured by questionnaires filled out by children and their parents. Variables are: having breakfast, eating fruit, eating vegetable, drinking sugar sweetened beverages, hours being physical active, hours of screen-time activities. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Authoritative parentingstyle (general parenting); 2. Parenting practices measured by: to set rules, modelling and monitoring of healthy eating and physical (in)activity; 3. Parental selfefficacy. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactEmilie Ruiter
Academic collaborative centre AMPHI Department of Public Health, UMC St Radboud Postbus 9101
Outcome results
None listed