Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study

NCT01813903 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: THL10433
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 59
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to test internet and mobile-based applications to support motivating lifestyle counseling to promote healthy eating habits of the mothers and their spouses expecting first child. The feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated in the pilot.

Conditions

Obesity

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Food consumption of the parents

  Measured with Food Frequency Questionnaire

  7 months

• Maternal post-natal depression

  Measured with Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS)

  9 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Food and health related attitudes and aims of the parent's

  9 months

• Psychological flexibility of the parent's

  9 months

• Mental health of the parent's

  9 months

Study Arms (3)

Nutrition

EXPERIMENTAL

Intensified dietary counseling and use of web application.

Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling

Flexible mind

EXPERIMENTAL

Use of mobile applications.

Behavioral: Mobile application

Normal maternity clinic visits

NO INTERVENTION

In control maternity clinics, nurses continue their usual counseling.

Interventions

Intensified dietary counseling BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is completed by public health nurses who will be trained to provide family-centered empowering and motivational lifestyle counseling at the normal health check visit. Parents expecting child will use web application developed for nutritional counseling. Web application consists of dietary questionnaire from which the parents will receive immediately automatic feedback. Feedback concerns the quality of diet in relation to the Finnish nutrition recommendations. Feedback will be given in an encouraging format. Own targets of food changes can also be recorded in the application, and the application can be used to monitor how they are achieved.

Nutrition

Mobile application BEHAVIORAL

Mothers expecting child will use mobile application. Mobile application consists of text, audio and video exercises, which are aimed to increase the psychological flexibility and thus mental and physical well-being.

Flexible mind

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• All families expecting their child at their standard 8-10 pregnancy weeks welfare clinic visit

You may not qualify if:

• Parents are under 18-year-old
• Parents do not speak Finnish
• Parents do not have internet access

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare: lead
• Tampere University: collaborator
• University of Helsinki: collaborator
• University of Jyvaskyla: collaborator
• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland: collaborator
• The Finnish Heart Association: collaborator
• The National Consumer Research Centre: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Maternal welfare clinics

Vantaa, 01300, Finland

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overweight; Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Suvi I Virtanen, Professor

  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 12, 2013
• First Posted: March 19, 2013
• Study Start: April 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2015
• Study Completion: May 1, 2015
• Last Updated: June 8, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-06

Locations

FI (1)