Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study

The intervention is completed by public health nurses who will be trained to provide family-centered empowering and motivational lifestyle counseling at the normal health check visit. Parents expecting child will use web application developed for nutritional counseling. Web application consists of dietary questionnaire from which the parents will receive immediately automatic feedback. Feedback concerns the quality of diet in relation to the Finnish nutrition recommendations. Feedback will be given in an encouraging format. Own targets of food changes can also be recorded in the application, and the application can be used to monitor how they are achieved.

Mothers expecting child will use mobile application. Mobile application consists of text, audio and video exercises, which are aimed to increase the psychological flexibility and thus mental and physical well-being.