Feeding Practices Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effect of Information Promoting Textured Food Introduction on Parental Practices and Children Acceptance of Textured Foods
The purpose of this study is to conduct an intervention with 60 parents of 8 months old children to test the effect of recommendations, compared to usual care, promoting the introduction of textured foods between 8 and 15 months on parental practices of use of textured foods and the effect of such practices on children acceptance for a variety of textured foods.
The intervention tests the effect of providing parents with recommendations on textured food
introduction between 8 and 15 months on their practices of offering of textured foods and
their child's acceptance of textured foods. The intervention consists of advice and tips on
the why and how introducing textured food during complementary feeding, which were not
address in French national guidelines (Programme National Nutrition Santé (PNNS)) at the
start of the study. Advise were developped from current literature knowledge and
recommendations in other countries. They are accompanied with monthly counselling via phone
calls by dietician and two baskets containing food preparation utensils and commercial
textured foods. The intervention group (n=30) benefits from this intervention. The control
group (n=30) receive general information on healthy eating provided by the food guides of the
PNNS, phone calls collecting general information and 2 baskets containing baby gifts.
Acceptance is evaluated experimentally pre and post intervention in a laboratory setting
evaluating children swallowing foods of different textures.
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
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| Recruiting |
NCT06181773 -
Empowering Parents to Optimize Feeding Practices With Preschool Children (EPO Feeding Program)
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N/A |