Computer-tailored health information for parents with young children combined with personal counselling in well-child care

ISRCTN	ISRCTN53855434
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN53855434
Secondary identifying numbers	NTR616; 4010.0033

Submission date: 04/04/2006
Registration date: 04/04/2006
Last edited: 01/09/2009

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Other

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Dr Gitte Kloek
Scientific

Erasmus Medical Center
Department of Public Health
P.O. BOX 2040
Rotterdam
3000 CA
Netherlands

Phone	+31 (0)10 4087422
Email	g.kloek@erasmusmc.nl

Study information

Study design	Multicentre radomised controlled parallel group trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Prevention
Scientific title
Study objectives	The computer-tailored health information in combination with personal counselling leads to: 1. Improvement of health behaviors 2. Improvement of parental satisfaction with well-child care visits 3. Improvement of well-child care provider satisfaction with well-child care visits
Ethics approval(s)	Received from local medical ethics committee
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Unintentional injuries, overweight
Intervention	Parents are randomised into one of two groups below: 1. Tailored health information in combination with personal counselling 2. Usual care Depending on the age of the child, the topics of the tailored health education program will differ. Parents of babies (n = 240) will receive health information on safety behaviors. Parents of toddlers (n = 240) will receive health information on overweight related health behaviors: physical activity and nutrition. Parents in the intervention group will access the computer-tailored health education program at their homes through the internet. After completion of the assessment questions, the program compiles a tailored health information handout. During the next well-child visit the well-child care provider will discuss this tailored health information with the parent.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	1. Parents' child safety behaviors relevant to prevention of burns, drowning, falls, and poisoning; intentions to adopt child safety behaviors; beliefs about preventive behaviors 2. Children's physical activity and child nutrition and feeding practices; awareness of physical activity behavior and feeding practices
Secondary outcome measures	Well-child care provider: satisfaction with well-child visit Parents: satisfaction with well-child visits
Overall study start date	01/04/2006
Completion date	31/12/2006

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Other
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	480
Key inclusion criteria	Parents visiting the youth health care centre for well-child visits.
Key exclusion criteria	Those parents who are not able to read and understand Dutch sufficiently.
Date of first enrolment	01/04/2006
Date of final enrolment	31/12/2006

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Netherlands

Study participating centre

Erasmus Medical Center

Rotterdam
3000 CA
Netherlands

Sponsor information

Erasmus Medical Centre (Netherlands)
Hospital/treatment centre

Department of Public Health
P.O. Box 2040
Rotterdam
3000 CA
Netherlands

"ROR"	https://ror.org/018906e22

Funders

Funder type

Research organisation

The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) (Netherlands)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan