- Title
- 5-year follow-up of a telephone intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in preschoolers: The 'healthy habits' cluster randomised trial
- Creator
- Wyse, Rebecca; Stacey, Fiona; Campbell, Libby; Yoong, Serene; Lecathelinais, Christophe; Wiggers, John; Campbell, Karen; Wolfenden, Luke
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 12, Issue 12, no. 3702, p. 1-15
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12123702
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Little is known about the long-term impact of telephone-based interventions to improve child diet. This trial aimed to assess the long-term effectiveness (after 5 years) of a telephone-based parent intervention in increasing children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. Parents of 3–5 year olds were recruited from 30 Australian preschools to participate in a cluster randomised controlled trial. Intervention parents received four, weekly, 30-min support calls aimed at modifying the home food environment. Control parents received printed materials. Consumption was assessed using the Fruit and Vegetable subscale of the Children’s Dietary Questionnaire (F&V-CDQ) (children) and daily servings of fruit and vegetables (children and parents) via parent telephone interview. Of the 394 parents who completed baseline, 57% (99 intervention, 127 control) completed follow-up. After 5-years, higher intervention F&V-CDQ scores, bordering on significance, were found in complete-case (+1.1, p = 0.06) and sensitivity analyses (+1.1, p = 0.06). There was no difference in parent or child consumption of daily fruit servings. Complete-case analysis indicated significantly higher consumption of child vegetable servings (+0.5 servings; p = 0.02), which was not significant in sensitivity analysis (+0.5 servings; p = 0.10). This telephone-based parent intervention targeting the family food environment may yield promising improvements in child fruit and vegetable consumption over a 5-year period.
- Subject
- fruit; vegetable; telephone-based intervention; preschoolers; long-term; cluster RCT
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439121
- Identifier
- uon:40830
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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