Observatory of Food Preferences in Infants and Children

Eating Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Longitudinal Study of Food Liking in Eatrly Childhood

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02383459
• Other study ID #: OPALINE
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 4, 2015
• Last updated: March 6, 2015
• Start date: January 2005
• Est. completion date: July 2011

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Food habits form early in infancy and are likely to track into childhood until the beginning of adulthood. Understanding the factors driving the acceptance of foods in the early years is therefore of particular importance, since these foods will form the basis of a child's future food repertoire. This is especially important for vegetables, which consumption is recommended at all stages of life but is below the recommended levels and which acceptance is difficult to promote during late childhood.

The objective of the present study was to unravel the respective contribution of maternal feeding practices, of children's rate of exposure to vegetables and of children's sensory reactivity factors over the course of the first two years, to explain the development of liking for vegetables at the age of 2 years. This analysis took advantage of data recorded in a prospective cohort of children recruited before birth and followed up longitudinally until the age of 2 years.

Description:

This study is a cohort study with the aim to evaluate prospectively food liking in children, at to relate this outcome to children's food experience, acceptance of taste and olfactory stimulation, and to parental feeding style.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 319
• Est. completion date: July 2011
• Est. primary completion date: June 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant mothers older than 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Food allergies in the infant, as observed after the infant's birth

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Eating Behavior

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France, National Research Agency, France, University of Burgundy

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Food likes (Evaluation of food likes for a list of 257 foods)	Evaluation of food likes for a list of 257 foods	1-year prospective data collection	No