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Filter by:More2Sleep is a randomized, controlled, parallel trial with two groups (sleep extension vs control) including 300 school-aged children (6-9 years) who are mildly overweight or obese and habitually sleep for ≤ 9 h/night. Data will be collected before and after a 3-month sleep extension intervention, and after a 6-month follow-up (at months 0, 3, and 9). The collection of data is mainly related to the main study. However, some optional examinations will be conducted on a first come, first serve basis, consisting of substudy-I (metabolic mechanisms, n=60) and substudy-II (learning mechanisms, n=150). The primary objective is to assess the effects of sleep extension by ~45 min/night, achieved by going to bed 60-90 min earlier, on adiposity and learning ability in school-aged children who are overweight or obese, and sleep less than recommended for their age.
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem worldwide. Europe has a high prevalence of obesity, which is accentuated in Mediterranean countries. Spain has a high prevalence of both overweight (percentage: 21.5 in boys and 22.2 in girls) and obesity (percentage: 10.6 in boys and 11.8 in girls) in children aged 6-9 years. From childhood, obesity is associated with an increased risk of diseases such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, musculoskeletal problems, sleep disorders and mental health problems. Obesity is a complex, multi-causal problem involving individual risk factors such as behavior and genetics. Behavioral factors include diet, physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, sleep, and others. It is therefore important to study each of the individual risk factors for obesity. There are few large sample studies in European/Spanish children and no longitudinal studies estimating the incidence of obesity in preschool children based on exposure to different risk factors, considering not only the effect of food consumption but also dietary habits and patterns. The aim of the present study is to identify risk factors for childhood obesity through long-term longitudinal follow-up.
The preschool age is a crucial period of growth and an optimal time to begin to establish healthy eating and physical activity habits leading to better food and activity choices into adulthood, thereby minimizing risk for obesity-related diseases and decreasing the cardiometabolic disparities in this Indigenous population. More Outside Your Door is a multi-level, randomized, stepped-wedge intervention trial designed to reduce the disparity of childhood obesity in Yup'ik Alaska Native children by increasing the proportion of nutrient-dense traditional and traditional-like foods offered and increasing physical activity, particularly outdoor activities related to traditional Yup'ik subsistence and lifestyle practices. This 5-year intervention trial targeting 3-5 year olds is conducted in partnership with Rural Action Community Action Program Head Start programs in 12 rural Alaskan communities, where each site is assigned annually to a wedge group to receive either a community-altered culturally-tailored 8-month traditional foods and activities curriculum intervention or the standard regional Head Start program intervention.
Lack of physical activity (PA) and sedentary lifestyle in Danish children is a major challenge. New strategies are needed to combat this development. Early awareness is important, as PA behaviour in childhood often is manifested across adolescence and into adulthood. The three-year Child-COOP trial aims to explore if a participatory system dynamics approach can promote (increase and sustain) healthy PA behaviour in schoolchildren aged 6-12 years through changes at the local system level. The five Danish municipalities will each participate with an intervention community and a comparison community. First, local health profiles of children will be collected and used to engage key leaders and stakeholders from intervention communities and municipal administrations in participatory processes. These will be used to develop a systems map of drivers of PA behaviour in schoolchildren aged 6-12 years in the local communities. Second, based on the systems map, stakeholders from the civic and private sectors will be involved in developing and implementing actions to promote healthy PA behaviour through system changes. The trial will be evaluated in a pre-post design to compare intervention effects between the communities and identify outcomes at individual level and systems level. A process evaluation will be made to map the activities in a final systems program theory on "what works for whom under what circumstances". Results will be used in future recommendations and to assess the potential for upscaling to national level. Child-COOP will be based on a collaboration between the five Danish municipalities, the Steno Diabetes Centres in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Zealand, Aarhus University and Deakin University, Australia. Centre for Health Promotion in Practice, Local Government Denmark (KL) and the Danish Healthy Cities Network (Sund By Netværket) will contribute with feedback on project progress and dissemination of project results.
Overweigth and obesity are commonly diagnosed in children with type 1 diabetes, and frequently an increase of wiegth and BMI is observed after diagnoses. Hybrid cloosed loop system are new system where insulin is continually adapted to glycemia (using an algorythme). The weight and growth trajectory of children treated with this system is poorly described.
The FACILITY STUDY is aimed at evaluating maternal and children social, cultural, economic and lifestyle-related risk factors for the development of childhood overweight, obesity and early adiposity rebound (EAR). This study consists of two phases: a cross-sectional phase and a retrospective case-control study.
In 2019, the World Health Organization established new guidelines for physical activity, sedentary screen time, and sleep for children under 5 years old. Unfortunately, only a few (6%) of preschoolers in Flanders, Belgium, adhere to these guidelines. The aim of this study is to test a health program developed to optimize 24-hour behaviors in preschoolers and encourage more children to follow the guidelines. The program was created using the Intervention Mapping Protocol in collaboration with parents. It consists of seven sessions for parents and preschoolers, providing strategies to encourage compliance with the guidelines. The program's effectiveness will be evaluated through a randomized controlled trial, with the intervention group attending the sessions and the control group receiving the intervention materials at the end of the study.
Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.
The goal of this observational study is to investigate differences in attained BMI and the proportion of overweight/obesity at school entrance in children who attended kindergartens actively delivering a community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention compared to children who attended usual care kindergartens. Further questions it aims to answer are: - Explore the prevalence of attainted overweight/obesity in children at six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention compared with usual care kindergartens. - Explore the development of obesity, overweight and normal weight in children from three-, four- to six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention.
The goal of this study is to learn about how children's sleep is related to their eating behaviors the next day, and to learn about factors that relate to eating behaviors and sleep health that are specific to preadolescent children living in rural communities.