Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study

Overview

The purpose of this study was to test internet and mobile-based applications to support motivating lifestyle counseling to promote healthy eating habits of the mothers and their spouses expecting first child. The feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated in the pilot.

Full Title of Study: “Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study at Finnish Welfare Clinics”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Prevention
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: March 2015

Detailed Description

Lifestyle habits during pregnancy have long-term effects of baby's as well as mother's health. Pregnancy period is a favorable time for lifestyle changes, as the parents usually have motivation and assets to change lifestyle. Maternity welfare clinic is the place to promote healthy lifestyles because most Finnish families expecting child visit there at regular intervals.

Interventions

  • Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling
    • The intervention is completed by public health nurses who will be trained to provide family-centered empowering and motivational lifestyle counseling at the normal health check visit. Parents expecting child will use web application developed for nutritional counseling. Web application consists of dietary questionnaire from which the parents will receive immediately automatic feedback. Feedback concerns the quality of diet in relation to the Finnish nutrition recommendations. Feedback will be given in an encouraging format. Own targets of food changes can also be recorded in the application, and the application can be used to monitor how they are achieved.
  • Behavioral: Mobile application
    • Mothers expecting child will use mobile application. Mobile application consists of text, audio and video exercises, which are aimed to increase the psychological flexibility and thus mental and physical well-being.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Nutrition
    • Intensified dietary counseling and use of web application.
  • Experimental: Flexible mind
    • Use of mobile applications.
  • No Intervention: Normal maternity clinic visits
    • In control maternity clinics, nurses continue their usual counseling.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Food consumption of the parents
    • Time Frame: 7 months
    • Measured with Food Frequency Questionnaire
  • Maternal post-natal depression
    • Time Frame: 9 months
    • Measured with Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS)

Secondary Measures

  • Food and health related attitudes and aims of the parent’s
    • Time Frame: 9 months
    • Questions about food and health related attitudes and aims
  • Psychological flexibility of the parent’s
    • Time Frame: 9 months
    • Measured with Acceptance & Action Questionnaire (AAQ-2)
  • Mental health of the parent’s
    • Time Frame: 9 months
    • Measured with Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF)

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • All families expecting their child at their standard 8-10 pregnancy weeks welfare clinic visit Exclusion Criteria:

  • Parents are under 18-year-old – Parents do not speak Finnish – Parents do not have internet access

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Collaborator
    • Tampere University
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Suvi I Virtanen, Professor, Principal Investigator, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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