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NCT Number: NCT01565525

Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity

The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.

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Key information

Conditions

Childhood Obesity Body Weight Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Obesity Overnutrition Overweight Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Pediatric Obesity Signs and Symptoms

Age range

2 week–2 month

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Columbus, Ohio, 43205, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Maternal/infant pairs Infant under 2 months of age Mother English speaking

Exclusion criteria

History of Neonatal ICU stay in infant Gestation less than 37 weeks in infant chronic disease in infant known genetic disorder in infant foster care placement in infant

Treatment and study plan

Maternal focused intervention

Behavioral

This is a series of information given to mothers at child's well child visits (6 in all) starting at the newborn visit focused in maternal eating habits, using the mother as a potential 'agent of change' for the family and infant in modeling healthy eating habits.

Other names: MOMS

Ounce of Prevention

Behavioral

This intervention is given via a series of handouts given to mothers at their child's well visit from newborn period to one year of age, focusing on serving size and frequency and the introduction of new foods.

Other names: "Ounce"

Primary outcomes

  1. Infant weight for height

    Time frame: One year after study entry

    Infant weight for height will be assessed to see if proportions of elevated weight for height are lower in intervention groups as compared to usual care.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Maternal feeding behaviors

    Time frame: One year after study entry.

    Several maternal feeding behaviors, including amount of vegetables and fruit offered to infant, eating as a 'family', amount of television watching by the infant, and juice intake by the infant were secondary outcomes.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Can Changing How Moms Eat Prevent Obesity in Toddlers?

Acronym: MOMS

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Mar 28, 2012
Registry last updated
Mar 28, 2012

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