menuCH-Kids, the First Swiss National Nutrition Survey in Children and Adolescents

NCT07204860 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: menuCH-Kids_2022-01602
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,852
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 6

Brief Summary

Public health study on the nutritional status and eating habits of children and adolescents in Switzerland

Conditions

Nutrition Assessment; Healthy Adolescents; Healthy Children; Population Study; Random Sample; Switzerland; Diet Habits; Biomarkers

Keywords

children; adolescents; nutrition biomarkers; 24HDRs; Swiss; populational nutrition survey; dietary assessement; diet

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (5)

• Dietary intake

  Dietary intake was captured using two 24-hours recalls using GloboDiet, a multi-pass semi-automatic software, as well as a short food propensity questionaire (FPQ).

  baseline

• Nutritional biomarkers

  Several nutritional biomarkers will be measured in urine and blood, including blood formula, glycated heamoglobin, lipids (cholesterol types, triglycerides), vitamins (D, B9, B12, beta-caroten), ferritin, calcium. More anaylsis will be performed as the biobanked samples will be analysed, a complete updated list will be available on the study data repository.

  baseline

• physical measurements

  weight (kg), height (cm), blood pressure (mmHg), waist and hip circumference (cm)

  baseline

• Lifestyle

  A questionnaire containing lifestyle information, including physical activity, screentime, sleep, eating and cooking habits, dietary supplements, health status. The full questionnaire content is available on the data repository website.

  baseline

• socio-demographic information

  The questionnaire include information about the household, including parent's education and job type, household size, nationality etc. We also have information from the Federal Office of statistics, including typology of their adress (urban vs rural), a spatial socioeconomic proxy (Swiss-SEP), sex and age of the participant... A complete list is available on the study data repository.

  baseline

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Invited individuals were randomly selected from the Swiss cantonal population registries using the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) sampling frame. The sample of invited persons consisted in 6-17yo children and adolescents residing in Swiss municipalities located within a 30 minutes travel-time to the 6 investigation centers (Bellinzona, Bern, Lausanne, Luzern, St. Gallen, Zurich), stratified in three age groups : 6-9yo, 10-13yo, 14-17yo

You may qualify if:

• Healthy and free-living children aged between 6 and 17 years
• Permanent residents in Switzerland
• Participants and their legal guardian(s) must be able to read and speak German, French or Italian
• Informed consent provided

You may not qualify if:

• Known severe chronic disease (e.g. renal, gastrointestinal, cognitive disorder)
• Hospitalization (overnight stay in the last four weeks before the visit)
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Insufficient knowledge of German, French or Italian or inability to understand the study and/or to provide informed consent
• Inability to come to recruitment center
• Refusal to be informed about study incidental findings concerning the child

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland: lead
• Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office: collaborator
• Berner Fachhochule: collaborator
• Kinderklinik Inselspital: collaborator
• Università della Svizzera italiana: collaborator
• Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona: collaborator
• Universität Zürich: collaborator
• Ostschweizer Kinderspital: collaborator
• Kinderspital Luzern: collaborator
• Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften: collaborator
• Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale: collaborator
• Swiss Nutrition and Health Foundation: collaborator
• YouGov Schweiz: collaborator

Study Sites (6)

Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona, Istituto Pediatrico della Svizzera Italiana

Bellinzona, Switzerland

Location

Kinderklinik Inselspital

Bern, Switzerland

Location

Unisante

Lausanne, Switzerland

Location

Kinderspital Luzern (LUKS)

Lucerne, Switzerland

Location

Ostschweizer Kinderspital (OKS)

Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Location

Universität Zürich

Zurich, Switzerland

Location

Related Links

• website of the stuy. Results, data access links and other information can be found there

Biospecimen

Retention: SAMPLES WITHOUT DNA

blood and urine samples, analysed for nutritional status, health status and contaminents

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 18, 2025
• First Posted: October 2, 2025
• Study Start: August 17, 2023
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2024
• Study Completion: September 30, 2024
• Last Updated: October 2, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: It will be available from Autumn 2025
• Access Criteria: Data will be accessible to researchers, after signing a data protection agreement. Access to licensed datasets will only be granted when the Lead Researcher is an employee of a legally registered receiving agency (university, research company, research centre, national or international research organization, etc.) on behalf of which access to the data is requested. Commercial use of the data is not permitted. The Lead Researcher assumes all responsibility for compliance with all terms of this Data Access Agreement by all researchers involved in the respective research project.

Locations

CH (6)