Tiny Bites, a digital health intervention delivered in early childhood education and care centres to support educators and caregivers to prevent childhood obesity: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Infant feeding practices in the first 2 years of life are linked to long-term weight trajectories. Despite the importance of obesity prevention interventions, there are no randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating early childhood education and care (ECEC) and primary caregiver-targeted interventions on child weight and feeding outcomes.

Aim

To assess the efficacy of an 18-month digital health intervention (Tiny Bites) delivered to ECEC services and primary caregivers of children aged 4 to ≤12 months on child age-adjusted and sex-adjusted body mass index-for-age z-score (zBMI) relative to usual care control in the Hunter New England (HNE) region of New South Wales, Australia.

Methods and analysis

This type 1 hybrid cluster RCT will include up to 60 EC

SUBMITTER: Yoong SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12645655 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature