Who is sponsoring NCT00970710?

NCT00970710 is sponsored by Tampere University.

What drugs are being tested in NCT00970710?

Interventions in NCT00970710: Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study.

What condition does NCT00970710 study?

NCT00970710 studies Childhood Obesity Pevention.

Is NCT00970710 still recruiting?

NCT00970710 is currently completed. Last updated 14 February 2017.

Last reviewed 2017-02-14 · How we verify

NCT00970710: VACOPP

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Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study

Completed NA Last updated 14 February 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study in Childhood Obesity Pevention in 185 participants. Completed in 31 January 2017.

Timeline

1 January 2009

Primary endpoint
31 January 2017

31 January 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Tampere University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	185
Start date	1 January 2009
Primary completion	31 January 2017
Estimated completion	31 January 2017
Sites	1 location across Finland

Drugs / interventions tested

Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study

Conditions studied

Childhood Obesity Pevention — all drugs for Childhood Obesity Pevention →

Sponsor

Tampere University

Who can join

Under 6, any sex, with Childhood Obesity Pevention. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study aims to prevent childhood obesity with early life (pregnancy) intensified counselling. The recruited intervention group is pregnant mothers who are at risk to get gestational diabetes. Lifestyle intervention (nutritional and physical activity) begins during pregnancy in maternity clinics and continues in child wellfare clinics until the child is 5 years of age.

Publications & conference data

4 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

Interventions aimed at decreasing obesity in children younger than 2 years: a systematic review.
Ciampa PJ, Kumar D, Barkin SL, Sanders LM, et al · · 2010 · cited 67× · PMID 21135337 · DOI 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.232
Pragmatic controlled trial to prevent childhood obesity in maternity and child health care clinics: pregnancy and infant weight outcomes (the VACOPP Study).
Mustila T, Raitanen J, Keskinen P, Saari A, et al · · 2013 · cited 24× · PMID 23688259 · DOI 10.1186/1471-2431-13-80
A pragmatic controlled trial to prevent childhood obesity within a risk group at maternity and child health-care clinics: results up to six years of age (the VACOPP study).
Mustila T, Raitanen J, Keskinen P, Luoto R. · · 2018 · cited 12× · PMID 29486763 · DOI 10.1186/s12887-018-1065-3
Behavioral counseling to prevent childhood obesity--study protocol of a pragmatic trial in maternity and child health care.
Mustila T, Keskinen P, Luoto R. · · 2012 · cited 9× · PMID 22759439 · DOI 10.1186/1471-2431-12-93

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Verify against primary sources

ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
WHO ICTRP — international registry index
EU Clinical Trials Register
Sponsor press releases (Google)

Data sources for this page

Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00970710 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Tampere University
Last refreshed: 14 February 2017

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