Clinical trial NCT01869530: TARGet Kids!: Measuring Nutrition in Young Preschool Children in the Primary Care Practice Setting
Official title: TARGet Kids!: Measuring Nutrition in Young Preschool Children in the Primary Care Practice Setting
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Nutritional Disorders
Obesity
Development
Lead sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-06-05
Enrollment: 14000
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 5
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children are recruited from 12 pediatric and family medicine primary care practices in Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Brief summary: TARGet Kids! (The Applied Research Group for Kids) is a research study enrolling healthy children aged 0-5 years. The aim of the TARGet Kids! registry is to link early life exposures to health problems including obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and developmental problems.

TARGet Kids! represents an innovative collaboration between child health researchers and children's primary care doctors (pediatricians and family physicians) to promote research that really matters and create solutions to some of the today's biggest health concerns. The results of this collaborative research study are not only improving the quality of children's healthcare but also the health of children across the country. Coordinated by Sick Kids and St. Michael's Hospital with data management services by the Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC), TARGet Kids! is the only primary care research network for children in Canada.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Birth to less than 6 years of age
* Parental consent
* Attending a TARGet Kids! research network practice

Exclusion Criteria:

* Chronic illness with the exception of asthma

Primary outcomes:
measure: Body Mass Index (BMI)
timeFrame: 10 years (yearly measurements)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Nutrition
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Development
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Mental Health
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Lifestyle Factors
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Child Behavior
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Social Determinants
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Education
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
measure: Parenting
timeFrame: Yearly measurements
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: St. Michael's Hospital
state: Ontario
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Hospital for Sick Children
state: Ontario
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Melville Pediatric Center
state: Quebec
Study officials:
References:
citation: Omand JA, Li X, Keown-Stoneman CDG, Borkhoff CM, Duku E, Lebovic G, Maguire JL, Mamdani MM, Parkin PC, Reid-Westoby C, Randall Simpson J, Tremblay MS, Janus M, Birken CS; TARGet Kids! Study Group. Body Weight at Age Four Years and Readiness to Start School: A Prospective Cohort Study. Child Obes. 2023 Jun;19(4):267-281. doi: 10.1089/chi.2022.0018. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
citation: Omand JA, Janus M, Maguire JL, Parkin PC, Aglipay M, Randall Simpson J, Keown-Stoneman CDG, Duku E, Reid-Westoby C, Birken CS. Nutritional Risk in Early Childhood and School Readiness. J Nutr. 2021 Dec 3;151(12):3811-3819. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab307.
citation: Hamid JS, Atenafu EG, Borkhoff CM, Birken CS, Maguire JL, Bohn MK, Adeli K, Abdelhaleem M, Parkin PC. Reference intervals for hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume in an ethnically diverse community sample of Canadian children 2 to 36 months. BMC Pediatr. 2021 May 19;21(1):241. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-02709-w.
citation: Bayoumi I, Birken CS, Nurse KM, Parkin PC, Maguire JL, Macarthur C, Randall Simpson JA, Borkhoff CM. Screening for marginal food security in young children in primary care. BMC Pediatr. 2021 Apr 23;21(1):196. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-02674-4.
citation: Gunaseelan V, Parkin PC, Wahi G, Birken CS, Maguire JL, Macarthur C, Borkhoff CM; Members of the TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Maternal ethnicity and iron status in early childhood in Toronto, Canada: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2020 Apr 6;4(1):e000635. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000635. eCollection 2020.
citation: Birken CS, Omand JA, Nurse KM, Borkhoff CM, Koroshegyi C, Lebovic G, Maguire JL, Mamdani M, Parkin PC, Randall Simpson J, Tremblay MS, Duku E, Reid-Westoby C, Janus M; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. 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. BMJ Open. 2019 Nov 19;9(11):e030709. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030709.
citation: Parkin PC, Koroshegyi C, Mamak E, Borkhoff CM, Birken CS, Maguire JL, Thorpe KE; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Association between Serum Ferritin and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood. J Pediatr. 2020 Feb;217:189-191.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.09.051. Epub 2019 Nov 2.
citation: Wong VCH, Maguire JL, Omand JA, Dai DWH, Lebovic G, Parkin PC, O'Connor DL, Birken CS; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. A Positive Association Between Dietary Intake of Higher Cow's Milk-Fat Percentage and Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Young Children. J Pediatr. 2019 Aug;211:105-111.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.03.047. Epub 2019 May 17.
citation: Sypes EE, Parkin PC, Birken CS, Carsley S, MacArthur C, Maguire JL, Borkhoff CM; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Higher Body Mass Index Is Associated with Iron Deficiency in Children 1 to 3 Years of Age. J Pediatr. 2019 Apr;207:198-204.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.11.035. Epub 2019 Jan 7.
citation: Oatley H, Borkhoff CM, Chen S, Macarthur C, Persaud N, Birken CS, Maguire JL, Parkin PC; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Screening for Iron Deficiency in Early Childhood Using Serum Ferritin in the Primary Care Setting. Pediatrics. 2018 Dec;142(6):e20182095. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-2095.
citation: Borkhoff CM, Dai DWH, Jairam JA, Wong PD, Cox KA, Maguire JL, Birken CS, Macarthur C, Parkin PC; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Breastfeeding to 12 mo and beyond: nutrition outcomes at 3 to 5 y of age. Am J Clin Nutr. 2018 Aug 1;108(2):354-362. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqy124.
citation: Eny KM, Chen S, Anderson LN, Chen Y, Lebovic G, Pullenayegum E, Parkin PC, Maguire JL, Birken CS; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Breastfeeding duration, maternal body mass index, and birth weight are associated with differences in body mass index growth trajectories in early childhood. Am J Clin Nutr. 2018 Apr 1;107(4):584-592. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqx081.
citation: Anderson LN, Carsley S, Lebovic G, Borkhoff CM, Maguire JL, Parkin PC, Birken CS. Misclassification of child body mass index from cut-points defined by rounded percentiles instead of Z-scores. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Nov 28;10(1):639. doi: 10.1186/s13104-017-2983-0.
citation: Vanderhout SM, Birken CS, Parkin PC, Lebovic G, Chen Y, O'Connor DL, Maguire JL; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Relation between milk-fat percentage, vitamin D, and BMI z score in early childhood. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Dec;104(6):1657-1664. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.139675. Epub 2016 Nov 16.