Family Dietary Coaching to Improve Nutritional Intakes and Body Weight Control — ELPAS  

Primary Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title: Prospective Longitudinal Study on Health and Diet (Etude Longitudinale Prospective Alimentation et Santé)

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

We hypothesize that Family Dietary Coaching for one school year will allow a nutritional shift towards following recommendations and improve health indicators in free-living children and adults.

Clinical Trial Description

Insufficient evidence supports the feasibility and the efficacy of current nutritional recommendations to prevent obesity. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that family dietary coaching would improve nutritional intakes and health indicators in free-living children and adults.

Intervention: the 1013 participating families (1013 children and 1013 parents) are randomly assigned to Group A (advice to reduce fat and to increase complex carbohydrates), Group B (advice to reduce both fat and sugars and to increase complex carbohydrates) or a control group (no advice). GA and GB receive monthly phone counseling and Internet-based monitoring. Main outcome measures are changes in nutritional intakes and body mass index throughout the intervention in both children and adults. Secondary outcomes included changes in fat mass, physical activity, fasting blood indicators and food-related quality of life. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Body Weight
• Body Weight Control
• Obesity Prevention
• Primary Prevention

• NCT number: NCT00456911
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation du Sucre
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2005
• Completion date: July 2006