Our team works with families, childcare providers and schools to promote healthy eating behaviours among children and youth. We are interested in developing and testing novel strategies to support healthy lifestyle behaviours among children and youth.
The Better Lunchbox Study: a web-based intervention among parents in Ontario to support parents in packing nutritious home-packed meals
Partners: The University of Guelph, the University of Western Ontario
The Sino-Canadian HeLTI (SCHeLTI) trial: A cluster-randomized control trial designed to prevent childhood obesity in China.
Partners: World Health Organization (WHO), 4 Chinese and 11 Canadian universities.
Petresin, T., Haines, J., Battram, D. S., Desgreniers, V., Regina Pena Mascorro, I., & Tugault-Lafleur CN (2025). Better Lunch Boxes: Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Family-Based Pilot Intervention to Support Nutritious Home-Packed Lunches. Children, 12(6), 739. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12060739
Brown JM, Tahir S, Franco-Arellano B, LeSage A†, Hughes J, Kapralos B, Lou W, Vogel E, Farkouh M, Tugault-Lafleur CN, and Arcand, J. (2025). Efficacy of the Foodbot Factory Digital School-Based Nutrition Education Intervention in Improving Children’s Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. BMJ Open. 2025 Jan 28;15(1):e092426. Doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092426
Tugault-Lafleur CN, De-Jongh González O, MacDonald J, Bradbury J, Warshawski T, Ball GDC, Morrison K, Ho J, Hamilton J, Buchholz A, Mâsse L. (2023) Efficacy of the Aim2Be intervention in changing lifestyle behaviours among adolescents with overweight and obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res;25:e38545. doi: https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e38545
De-Jongh González O, Tugault-Lafleur CN, Buckler EJ, Hamilton J, Ho J, Buchholz A, Morrison KM, Ball GD, Mâsse LC. (2022) The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children with Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes. J Med Internet Res 24(6):e35285. doi: 10.2196/35285. https://www.jmir.org/2022/6/e35285