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Reducing the Use of Sugar by School Lunch Cooks in Public Schools

NCT ID: NCT01267474

Last Updated: 2010-12-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

95 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-03-31

Study Completion Date

2007-12-31

Brief Summary

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The main objective was to evaluate the effect of a nutritional education program for school lunch cooks, aiming to reduce added sugar in schools meals and in their sugar intake.

Detailed Description

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Although Brazil is the largest producer and one of the world's largest consumers of sugar, research on sugar consumption is still a weak point among health indicators and there are no population studies to investigate the sugar intake in Brazilian population. Available data have shown reduction in the consumption of refined sugar (-37% between 1996 and 2003) but significant increase in consumption of soft drinks (400%), which constitute the main vehicle for consumption of added sugar. Moreover, studies have shown the adverse effects of excessive consumption of added sugar in dental caries and health, as excess energy intake hence in weight gain. Although several factors are associated with weight gain in adolescents, adults and elders, and several strategies have been released by both Brazil and International Agencies, as the Global Strategy, increased weight gain, particularly in adolescents, has been observed in several countries with large increase in Brazil, justifying specific projects to evaluate which messages, strategies and proposals for intervention would be effective.

Conditions

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Sugar Intake

Keywords

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School children Sugar intake Nutritional education program

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Nutritional education

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Nutritional education

Intervention Type OTHER

A nutritional education program was carried out during seven months of one school year aiming to reduce added sugar in school meals by the school lunch cooks and in their own consumption.

All women in the intervention group participated in three sections about sugar consumption and one section on food labeling, as well as recipes competition of with reducing sugar.

Printed material and gifts, such as mugs, refrigerator magnets and small purses with the logo of the campaign were given to the participants.

All sections of education were delivered in the schools. The activities required 20 to 30 minutes and were facilitated by trained research assistants. Printed instructions and orientations on the facilitation process supported the assistants' efforts.

Control

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

Control

Intervention Type OTHER

The control group received only three one-hour general sessions on health issues.

Interventions

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Nutritional education

A nutritional education program was carried out during seven months of one school year aiming to reduce added sugar in school meals by the school lunch cooks and in their own consumption.

All women in the intervention group participated in three sections about sugar consumption and one section on food labeling, as well as recipes competition of with reducing sugar.

Printed material and gifts, such as mugs, refrigerator magnets and small purses with the logo of the campaign were given to the participants.

All sections of education were delivered in the schools. The activities required 20 to 30 minutes and were facilitated by trained research assistants. Printed instructions and orientations on the facilitation process supported the assistants' efforts.

Intervention Type OTHER

Control

The control group received only three one-hour general sessions on health issues.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Use and consumption of sugar School lunch cooks General sessions on health issues

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Women who were working in the function of school lunch cook in the schools.

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnancy, male.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Rio de Janeiro State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rio de Janeiro State University

Principal Investigators

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Rosely Sichieri, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Rio de Janeiro State University

Locations

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Rio de Janeiro State University

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Site Status

Countries

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Brazil

Other Identifiers

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CNPQ:474135/2006-3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id