A Customized Intervention Program Aiming to Improve Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Preschool Children: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (Iran Healthy Start Study)

Atieh Mehdizadeh   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Mohsen Nematy   ^{1 *} , MD, PGDip, PhD ;   Majid Khadem-Rezaiyan   ¹ , MD ;   Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan   ¹ , MD, MSc, PhD ;   Mohammad Ali Sardar   ¹ , PhD ;   Anne Leis   ² , PhD ;   Louise Humbert   ³ , PhD ;   Mathieu Bélanger   ⁴ , PhD ;   Hassan Vatanparast   ⁵ , MD, PhD

¹ School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

³ College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Moncton, NB, Canada

⁵ College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

*these authors contributed equally