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ArticleBMJ open2019

Fit for School Study protocol: early child growth, health behaviours, nutrition, cardiometabolic risk and developmental determinants of a child's school readiness, a prospective cohort.

Catherine S Birken, Jessica A Omand, Kim M Nurse, Cornelia M Borkhoff, Christine Koroshegyi, Gerald Lebovic, Jonathon L Maguire, Muhammad Mamdani, Patricia C Parkin, Janis Randall Simpson and 5 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01869530 (TARGet Kids!), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.

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NCT01869530 recruitingnot on this map

TARGet Kids!: Measuring Nutrition in Young Preschool Children in the Primary Care Practice Setting

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorThe Hospital for Sick ChildrenRan2008 to 2030Enrolled14,000ConditionsNutritional Disorders, Obesity, Development
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Authors and funding

15 authors.

Catherine S BirkenDivision of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jessica A OmandChild Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada jessica.omand@sickkids.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2095-3629
Kim M NurseDivision of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Cornelia M BorkhoffDivision of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Christine KoroshegyiChild Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Gerald LebovicInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jonathon L MaguireInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Muhammad MamdaniInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Patricia C ParkinDivision of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Janis Randall SimpsonDepartment of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Mark S TremblayHealthy Active Living and Obesity Research, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Eric DukuThe Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Caroline Reid-WestobyThe Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Magdalena JanusThe Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9500-6776
TARGet Kids! Collaboration

Funding

CIHR 133 585
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSchool readiness is a multidimensional construct that includes cognitive, behavioural and emotional aspects of a child's development. School readiness is strongly associated with a child's future school success and well-being. The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a reliable and valid teacher-completed tool for assessing school readiness in children at kindergarten age. A substantial knowledge gap exists in understanding how early child growth, health behaviours, nutrition, cardiometabolic risk and development impact school readiness. The primary objective was to determine if growth patterns, measured by body mass index trajectories in healthy children aged 0-5 years, are associated with school readiness at ages 4-6 years (kindergarten age). Secondary objectives were to determine if other health trajectories, including health behaviours, nutrition, cardiometabolic risk and development, are associated with school readiness at ages 4-6 years. This paper presents the Fit for School Study protocol. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is an ongoing prospective cohort study. Parents of children enrolled in the The Applied Health Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!) practice-based research network are invited to participate in the Fit for School Study. Child growth, health behaviours, nutrition, cardiometabolic risk and development data are collected annually at health supervision visits and linked to EDI data collected by schools. The primary and secondary analyses will use a two-stage process: (1) latent class growth models will be used to first determine trajectory groups, and (2) generalised linear mixed models will be used to examine the relationship between exposures and EDI results. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The research ethics boards at The Hospital for Sick Children, Unity Health Toronto and McMaster University approved this study, and research ethics approval was obtained from each school board with a student participating in the study. The findings will be presented locally, nationally and internationally and will be published in peer-reviewed journals. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT01869530.

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Child BehaviorChild DevelopmentHealth BehaviorNutritional StatusBody Mass IndexChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleProspective Studiesbody mass indexbrain developmentearly development instrumentEDIkindergartenschool readiness

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PMID31748293
PMCPMC6886995

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