Trial reportBMC public health2018
A 12-month follow-up of a mobile-based (mHealth) obesity prevention intervention in pre-school children: the MINISTOP randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02021786 (A Web- and Mobile Phone-based Intervention to Prevent Obesity in 4-year-olds), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Web- and Mobile Phone-based Intervention to Prevent Obesity in 4-year-olds (MINISTOP): a Population-based Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessing the effectiveness of healthy weight interventions in the early years of childhood: a systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence from high-income countries.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Pooled it
- Empowering Health Through Digital Lifelong Prevention: An Umbrella Review of Apps and Wearables for Nutritional Management.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Mobile- and Web-Based Interventions for Promoting Healthy Diets, Preventing Obesity, and Improving Health Behaviors in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of eHealth Interventions on 24-Hour Movement Behaviors Among Preschoolers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Family sports interventions for the treatment of obesity in childhood: a meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Information and Communication Technology on Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Harnessing technological solutions for childhood obesity prevention and treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of current applications.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic evaluation of digital nutrition promotion websites and apps for supporting parents to influence children's nutrition.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- A developmental cascade perspective of paediatric obesity: A systematic review of preventive interventions from infancy through late adolescence.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Trial
- The impact of the Change4Life Food Scanner app on children's diets and parental psychological outcomes: a randomised pilot and feasibility study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Process and effect evaluation of the app-based parenting programFrontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- Effect of a Parent-Focused eHealth Intervention on Children's Fruit, Vegetable, and Discretionary Food Intake (Food4toddlers): Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Trial
- Digital and Blended Lifestyle Interventions for Preschool-Aged Children and Families With a Low Socioeconomic Position and the General Population: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Exploring Evaluation of eHealth Lifestyle Interventions for Preschool Children: A Scoping Review.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2025Review
- How to integrate and leverage digital health modalities for health promotion in early childhood education: Opportunities to improve intervention access and engagement.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Longitudinal associations of meeting the WHO physical activity guidelines and physical fitness, from preschool to childhood.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of parent-based electronic health (Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundTo date, few mobile health (mHealth) interventions aimed at changing lifestyle behaviors have measured long term effectiveness. At the 6-month follow-up the MINISTOP trial found a statistically significant intervention effect for a composite score comprised of fat mass index (FMI) as well as dietary and physical activity variables; however, no intervention effect was observed for FMI. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate if the MINISTOP intervention 12-months after baseline measurements: (i) improved FMI and (ii) had a maintained effect on a composite score comprised of FMI and dietary and physical activity variables.
methodsA two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial was conducted in 315 healthy 4.5 year old children between January 2014 and October 2015. Parents' of the participating children either received the MINISTOP intervention or a basic pamphlet on dietary and physical activity behaviors (control group). After 6 months, participants did not have access to the intervention content and were measured again 6 months later (i.e. the 12-month follow-up). The Wilcoxon rank-sum test was then used to examine differences between the groups.
resultsAt the 12-month follow-up, no statistically significant difference was observed between the intervention and control groups for FMI (p = 0.57) and no maintained effect for the change in composite score was observed (mean ± standard deviation for the intervention and control group: + 0.53 ± 1.49 units and + 0.35 ± 1.27 units respectively, p = 0.25 between groups).
conclusionsThe intervention effect observed at the 6-month follow-up on the composite score was not maintained at the 12-month follow-up, with no effect on FMI being observed at either follow-up. Future studies using mHealth are needed to investigate how changes in obesity related markers in young children can be maintained over longer time periods.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT02021786 ; 20 Dec 2013).
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