Transforming Obesity Prevention for Children (TOPCHILD)

“Early childhood is a period when many behaviours that can contribute to the development of obesity, such as poor eating habits and physical inactivity are established. These can then track into later childhood and contribute to the problem of obesity.”

- Golley

Goal

Support families to set up healthy habits within the first two years of life.

Aims

To deconstruct childhood obesity interventions into their components using a systematic, internationally recognised framework.
To assess each discrete intervention component, establishing their relative impact on child obesity outcomes.
To assess which intervention components are particularly effective for specific populations (e.g. by socioeconomic position).

Researchers

From Flinders
Prof Rebecca Golley
Dr Brittany Johnson

Grant Details

NHMRC Ideas Grant: $412,000

Chief Investigators: Prof. Rebecca Golley, Dr Brittany Johnson

Commenced: 2020

Completion due: 2023

Collaborators

NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney

Project Partners

Macquarie University, University of Otago (New Zealand), University College London Centre for Behaviour Change, Hunter New England Population Health, Duke University