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| Name | Class |
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| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | OTHER |
| Administração Regional de Saúde do Norte, Portugal | OTHER |
| Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde do Grande Porto III - Maia / Valongo, Portugal | UNKNOWN |
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The investigators aim to test an evidence-based intervention, allocated to a mobile app designed to parents and their children with 3 to 6 years old, identified by family doctors or nurses at well-child care visits as overweight or obese for age.
This intervention aims to improve parent's perceptions and attitudes regarding children's weight status and food intake, leading to better dietary intake and children's' eating behaviors through positive parental child-feeding practices. In this study, the investigators aim to assess the feasibility of the intervention and explore its impact on the beliefs and attitudes of parents.
The investigators will enroll parents and their children with 3 to 6 years old, identified by family doctors or nurses at well-child care visits as overweight/obese for age.
Participant's eligibility will be assessed. Participants will be randomized to: 1) control group; 2) intervention group. The control group will receive treatment as usual. Parents in the intervention group will be provided with the app and invited to use it for 4 weeks. During the 4 weeks, the administrator monitors the app usage and call once to parents to improve it, if needed.
Both groups will perform a pre- and post-test, evaluating parent's perceptions and attitudes regarding children's weight status and food intake; eating behaviors and parental child-feeding practices.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Control group | No Intervention | Treatment as usual for 4 weeks | |
| Intervention group | Experimental | Education through the app for 4 weeks |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Parenting education program | Behavioral | Parenting education program through the app Fammeal. It includes educational content, tailored to parents and centered on positive parenting child-feeding practices. The app will also include a virtual-pet game for children, in order to help them self-regulate their intake. Through the app, parents will:
The investigators created a support website that connects to the main server to get data gathered from the mobile app and game. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Baseline Perceptions and Attitudes regarding children's weight status at 4 weeks | Parents recognize their children as overweight/obese (0-10 rating scale, ranging from 'too slim' to 'too heavy') and are concerned about it (0-10 rating scale, from 'Not concerned at all' to 'Extremely concerned'). | Baseline and 4 weeks |
| Change from Baseline Perceptions and Attitudes regarding children's food intake at 4 weeks | Parents are aware of dietary recommendations for children's age (Fruit and vegetables, sugar-sweetened beverages, energy-dense foods and water) and are concerned about their achievement (0-10 rating scale, from 'Not concerned at all' to 'extremely concerned'). | Baseline and 4 weeks |
| Dietary Intake (in this pilot RCT only evaluated to test the randomization) | Increase fruit and vegetables and water intake per day and decrease sugar-sweetened beverages and energy-dense foods intake per week (evaluated by food frequency questionnaire). | Baseline |
| Parental child-feeding practices (in this pilot RCT only evaluated to test the randomization) | Increase Availability and Accessibility of Healthy Foods; Attractive presentation of foods; Nutrition Education and decrease of Distractions (evaluated by HomeSTEAD Survey, adapted to Portuguese within this study). | Baseline |
| Study population eligibility and interest | Proportion of all parents invited who meet eligibility and who accepted to enroll. | Baseline |
| Participant engagement | Mean of points earned and app access per participant during intervention and proportion of recommended videos watched. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Eating Behaviors (in this pilot RCT only evaluated to test the randomization). | Increase Children's Satiety Responsiveness. This was evaluated by the mean score of 5 items of Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire.Satiety Responsiveness reflects the ability to regulate the amount of food eaten, based on perceived fullness. Parents answered in a 5-point Likert scale (0 = never; 5 = always), with higher values reflecting higher punctuation in each subscale. A version of this questionnaire has been previously validated and adapted to Portuguese children aged 3-13 years (Viana, Sinde, & Saxton, 2008). |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Lisa Afonso | Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto | Porto | Porto, Portugal | 4200-135 | Portugal |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| Result | Afonso L, Rodrigues R, Reis E, Miller KM, Castro J, Parente N, Teixeira C, Fraga A, Torres S. Fammeal: a gamified mobile application for parents and children to help health care centers treat childhood obesity. IEEE Transactions on Games. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TG.2020.3015804. | ||
| 34542511 | Result | Afonso L, Rodrigues R, Castro J, Parente N, Teixeira C, Fraga A, Torres S. A Mobile-Based Tailored Recommendation System for Parents of Children with Overweight or Obesity: A New Tool for Health Care Centers. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2020 Aug 7;10(3):779-794. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe10030057. |
| Label | URL |
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| Website of the project | View source |
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| ID | Term |
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| D050177 | Overweight |
| D009765 | Obesity |
| D063766 | Pediatric Obesity |
| ID | Term |
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| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D001835 | Body Weight |
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| 4 weeks |
| Baseline |
| D012816 |
| Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |