An RCT to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours from infancy: an intervention to prevent childhood overweight

在澳大利亚，目前每四个学龄儿童中就有一个超重，儿童肥胖率持续上升。在过去的五年里，很明显，学龄前儿童的超重和肥胖率也在迅速上升。这些都是卫生官员和父母都关心的问题。我们理解，这些肥胖率的上升与儿童的饮食和活动模式有关，而且这些模式一旦确立，很可能成为生活模式。到目前为止，关于支持父母建立饮食和活动模式的机会的研究相对较少，这些模式将从生命的一开始就保护他们的孩子。该项目旨在支持首次为人父母的人利用使用率很高的妇幼保健中心首次父母团体，在其子女中建立健康的饮食和活动行为。我们相信，这些团体将提供一个强有力的支持环境，为父母提供战略和知识，为他们的孩子促进健康饮食和活动模式，并反过来促进健康的体重增加。该项目将评估这一干预措施的有效性。

In Australia, one in four school-aged children is currently overweight and childhood obesity rates are continuing to rise. In the last five years it has become clear that rates of overweight and obesity are also rapidly increasing in pre-school age children. These are issues that are of concern to health officials as well as to parents. We understand that these rising rates in fatness relate to children's diet and activity patterns, and that these patterns, once established are likely to be patterns for life. To date, there has been relatively little research regarding the chance to support parents to establish the eating and activity patterns that will protect their children from the very beginning of life. This project seeks to support first-time parents to establish healthy eating and activity behaviours in their children using the highly utilised Maternal and Child Health Centres first time parents' groups. We believe that these groups will provide a strongly supportive environment in which to provide parents with strategies and knowledge for promoting healthy eating and activity patterns for their children, and in turn, promote healthy weight gain. This project will assess the effectiveness of this intervention.