The System Fammeal With Tailored Recommendations and Gamification for Parents to Counteract Childhood Obesity

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

28 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-02-06

Study Completion Date

2019-06-14

Brief Summary

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The investigators aim to test an evidence-based intervention, allocated to a mobile app designed to parents and their children with 3 to 6 years old, identified by family doctors or nurses at well-child care visits as overweight or obese for age.

This intervention aims to improve parent's perceptions and attitudes regarding children's weight status and food intake, leading to better dietary intake and children's' eating behaviors through positive parental child-feeding practices. In this study, the investigators aim to assess the feasibility of the intervention and explore its impact on the beliefs and attitudes of parents.

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Detailed Description

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The investigators will enroll parents and their children with 3 to 6 years old, identified by family doctors or nurses at well-child care visits as overweight/obese for age.

Participant's eligibility will be assessed. Participants will be randomized to: 1) control group; 2) intervention group. The control group will receive treatment as usual. Parents in the intervention group will be provided with the app and invited to use it for 4 weeks. During the 4 weeks, the administrator monitors the app usage and call once to parents to improve it, if needed.

Both groups will perform a pre- and post-test, evaluating parent's perceptions and attitudes regarding children's weight status and food intake; eating behaviors and parental child-feeding practices.

Conditions

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Overweight and Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Control group

Treatment as usual for 4 weeks

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention group

Education through the app for 4 weeks

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Parenting education program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Parenting education program through the app Fammeal. It includes educational content, tailored to parents and centered on positive parenting child-feeding practices. The app will also include a virtual-pet game for children, in order to help them self-regulate their intake.

Through the app, parents will:

* Fill in a registration questionnaire, which will tailor recommendations.
* Receive information and video content recommendations.
* Set goals related to their child's lifestyle and tracking progress.
* Earn points by watching the contents.
* Invite children to play a serious game.
* Exchange messages with other users.

The investigators created a support website that connects to the main server to get data gathered from the mobile app and game.

Interventions

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Parenting education program

Parenting education program through the app Fammeal. It includes educational content, tailored to parents and centered on positive parenting child-feeding practices. The app will also include a virtual-pet game for children, in order to help them self-regulate their intake.

Through the app, parents will:

* Fill in a registration questionnaire, which will tailor recommendations.
* Receive information and video content recommendations.
* Set goals related to their child's lifestyle and tracking progress.
* Earn points by watching the contents.
* Invite children to play a serious game.
* Exchange messages with other users.

The investigators created a support website that connects to the main server to get data gathered from the mobile app and game.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Children with 36 to 83 months at the start of the intervention.
* Children overweight or obese for age, according to World Health Organization criteria.
* Parent/ caregiver with at least 18 years old.
* Parent/caregiver involved in child feeding management (≥ 5 in a 0-10 rating scale, from 'Not at all' to 'Extremely involved').
* Parent/ caregiver able to read, speak and understand Portuguese.
* Parent/caregiver with an android device.
* Parent/caregiver willing to participate in the research study, to participate in two face-to-face evaluations, to install and use the app and to receive weekly notifications and 1-3 calls, during 4 weeks.

Exclusion Criteria

* Children with any medical conditions that affect growth, intake or physical activity.
* Children with any dietary professional advice, in the last 6 months.

Minimum Eligible Age

36 Months

Maximum Eligible Age

83 Months

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No