The Impact of the "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" ( NEHLM) on Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Dental Health Among Children From Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families in Beer Sheva - Full Text View

Purpose

Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is related to poor physical health, obesity, elevated cardiovascular risk factors and iron deficiency anemia. We plan to offer a comprehensive framework allowing the "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) among a low SES Kindergarten children. The model offered is designed to take into account the current economic status of the child's family. We shall conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the intervention.

Our main objective:

To compare the influence of the intervention on changes in food consumption, physical activity and ,and caries rates in the children in kindergartens where it is applied versus the control kindergartens.

The research hypothesis:

Integrative Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model (NEHLM) will improve health behaviors among children and parents in comparison to control intervention (physical activity only).

Condition	Intervention
Childhood Obesity	Behavioral: Life-style intervention Behavioral: Physical activity only


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Prevention
Official Title:	The Impact of the "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" ( NEHLM) on Diet Quality.

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Baby Health Checkup Dental Health Obesity

Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Children's Interstitial Lung Disease

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Soroka University Medical Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Children's weight and Height [ Time Frame: Baseline, post intervention and at 4 months post intervention termination ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Caries rate (DMFT score) [ Time Frame: Baseline, post intervention ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]


Enrollment:	258
Study Start Date:	September 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date:	September 2011
Primary Completion Date:	December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Lifestyle and health promotion The "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) is an Integrative model covering variety of lifestyle issues such as nutrition, dental care, and physical activity. The model will be applied to kindergartens and a sample of their parents. Children participating will be given 10 lessons in nutrition, 5 lessons in dental-care and 20 physical activity lessons. Parents for children in this group will be given 2 nutrition-education meetings and a meeting with a dental clinician.2 additional meetings will be held for parents and children together, one in nutrition and one in dental-care.	Behavioral: Life-style intervention The "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) is an Integrative model covering variety of lifestyle issues such as nutrition, dental care, and physical activity. The model will be applied to kindergartens and a sample of their parents. Children participating will be given 10 lessons in nutrition, 5 lessons in dental-care and 20 physical activity lessons. Parents for children in this group will be given 2 nutrition-education meetings and a meeting with a dental clinician.2 additional meetings will be held for parents and children together, one in nutrition and one in dental-care.
Active Comparator: Physical activity only Children allocated to this group will attend physical activity classes only.	Behavioral: Physical activity only Children allocated to this group will attend 20 physical activity classes.

Arms

Assigned Interventions

Experimental: Lifestyle and health promotion

The "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) is an Integrative model covering variety of lifestyle issues such as nutrition, dental care, and physical activity. The model will be applied to kindergartens and a sample of their parents. Children participating will be given 10 lessons in nutrition, 5 lessons in dental-care and 20 physical activity lessons. Parents for children in this group will be given 2 nutrition-education meetings and a meeting with a dental clinician.2 additional meetings will be held for parents and children together, one in nutrition and one in dental-care.

Behavioral: Life-style intervention

The "Nutrition Enrichment and Healthy Living Model" (NEHLM) is an Integrative model covering variety of lifestyle issues such as nutrition, dental care, and physical activity. The model will be applied to kindergartens and a sample of their parents. Children participating will be given 10 lessons in nutrition, 5 lessons in dental-care and 20 physical activity lessons. Parents for children in this group will be given 2 nutrition-education meetings and a meeting with a dental clinician.2 additional meetings will be held for parents and children together, one in nutrition and one in dental-care.

Active Comparator: Physical activity only

Children allocated to this group will attend physical activity classes only.

Behavioral: Physical activity only

Children allocated to this group will attend 20 physical activity classes.

Eligibility


Ages Eligible for Study:	48 Months to 84 Months
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Kindergarten children aged 4-7 Children from kindergartens defined as Low- SES population (by local municipality)
Children whose parents agree to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

Children who suffer from any chronic disease
Children who suffer from developmental problems
Children who participate in a weight reduction treatment or program
Children or parents who have any psychiatric problem or diagnosis

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01071551

Locations


Israel
Kindergardens
Beer-Sheva, Israel

Sponsors and Collaborators

Soroka University Medical Center

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Natalya Bilenko, MD, M.PH	Ben Gurion Universty of the Negev Israel

More Information

No publications provided by Soroka University Medical Center

Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Kaufman-Shriqui V, Werbeloff N, Faroy M, Meiri G, Shahar DR, Fraser D, Novack Y, Bilenko N, Vardi H, Elhadad N, Pietrzak RH, Harpaz-Rotem I. Posttraumatic stress disorder among preschoolers exposed to ongoing missile attacks in the Gaza war. Depress Anxiety. 2013 May;30(5):425-31. doi: 10.1002/da.22121.


Responsible Party:	Natalya Bilenko, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01071551 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	SOR471208CTIL
Study First Received:	February 18, 2010
Last Updated:	February 18, 2010
Health Authority:	Israel: Ministry of Health

Keywords provided by Soroka University Medical Center:


Children Obesity Lifestyle LSES Caries

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Obesity Pediatric Obesity Body Weight Nutrition Disorders	Overnutrition Overweight Signs and Symptoms

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 25, 2015