Trial reportThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2020
Long-term outcomes (2 and 3.5 years post-intervention) of the INFANT early childhood intervention to improve health behaviors and reduce obesity: cluster randomised controlled trial follow-up.
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- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Examining the sustainability of effects of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: Follow-up of the EPOCH individual participant data prospective meta-analysis.Pediatric obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Preventing and treating childhood overweight and obesity in children up to 5 years old: A systematic review by intervention setting.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluating the impact of communicating high polygenic risk for coronary artery disease on the health behaviour of young overweight adults: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of a Smartphone App (MINISTOP 2.0) integrated in primary child health care to promote healthy diet and physical activity behaviors and prevent obesity in preschool-aged children: randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Trial
- Mapping intervention components from a randomized controlled trial to scale-up of an early life nutrition and movement intervention: The INFANT program.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- Maternal knowledge explains screen time differences 2 and 3.5 years post-intervention in INFANT.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Exploring Changes in Parental Feeding Practices With Young Children Over Time and Their Influence on Young Children's Vegetable Consumption.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Health-behavior intervention increases sedentary breaks in children aged 0-5 years: evidence from the Melbourne Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Maternal and Child Diet Quality Trajectories and Their Determinants.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
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- Characterisation of At-Scale Community Health Interventions Aimed to Improve Healthy Eating Behaviour in Australia: A Rapid Review.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Review
- Motor skill competence and moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity: a linear and non-linear cross-sectional analysis of eight pooled trials.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Working together to increase Australian children's liking of vegetables: a position statement by the Vegetable Intake Strategic Alliance (VISA).Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Evaluation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire for Capturing Free Sugars Intake in Australian Young Children: The InFANT FFQ.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Breakfast consumption trends among young Australian children aged up to 5 years: results from InFANT program.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Nurturing children's development through healthy eating and active living: Time for policies to support effective interventions in the context of responsive emotional support and early learning.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Parental feeding and childhood genetic risk for obesity: exploring hypothetical interventions with causal inference methods.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe few health behavior interventions commencing in infancy have shown promising effects. Greater insight into their longer-term benefits is required. This study aimed to assess post-intervention effects of the Melbourne INFANT Program to child age 5y on diet, movement and adiposity.
methodsTwo and 3.5y post-intervention follow-up (2011-13; analyses completed 2019) of participants retained in the Melbourne INFANT Program at its conclusion (child age ~ 19 m; 2008-10) was conducted. The Melbourne INFANT Program is a 15-month, six session program delivered within first-time parent groups in Melbourne, Australia, between child age 4-19 m. It involves strategies to help parents promote healthy diet, physical activity and reduced sedentary behavior in their infants. No intervention was delivered during the follow-up period reported in this paper. At all time points height, weight and waist circumference were measured by researchers, children wore Actigraph and activPAL accelerometers for 8-days, mothers reported children's television viewing and use of health services. Children's dietary intake was reported by mothers in three unscheduled telephone-administered 24-h recalls.
resultsOf those retained at program conclusion (child age 18 m, n = 480; 89%), 361 families (75% retention) participated in the first follow-up (2y post-intervention; age 3.6y) and 337 (70% retention) in the second follow-up (3.5y post-intervention; age 5y). At 3.6y children in the intervention group had higher fruit (adjusted mean difference [MD] = 25.34 g; CI
conclusionsThe impact of this low-dose intervention delivered during infancy was still evident up to school commencement age for several targeted health behaviors but not adiposity. Some of these effects were only observed after the conclusion of the intervention, demonstrating the importance of long-term follow-up of interventions delivered during early childhood.
trial registrationISRCTN Register ISRCTN81847050 , registered 7th November 2007.
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