Food and Nutrition Education in Quilombolas Communities With Food Insecurity: Multi-sector Intervention

NCT ID: NCT02489149

Last Updated: 2019-04-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 4 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-05-31

Brief Summary

To optimize the food security in quilombolas communities with high prevalence of food insecurity and obesity, the present study proposes to test a multi-sector intervention including agriculture sectors, health professionals and family members of communities, based on promotion of traditional food practices, health eating and enforceability of human right to adequate food.

Detailed Description

The present study proposes to develop nutrition education strategies through multi-sector intervention in order to promote the consumption of healthy foods and improvements in the health status of the quilombola population.This is a non-randomized cluster trial in four quilombolas communities in Southern Brazil (Passo do Lorenço, Algodão, Serrinha do Cristal and Nova Palma), combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Conditions

Obesity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Multi-sector interventions

Multi-sector interventions

• Multi-sector interventions to enhance food security: Agricultural interventions are matched with field training for government sectors working with quilombolas communities on best agronomic practices to promote technical assistance for this communities. Stimulate the participation in the Program of Food Acquisition, supporting quilombolas agriculture.
• For quilombolas participants: nutritional counseling based on traditional healthy cooking practices, using traditional recipes.
• For health professionals: to strengthen food and nutrition actions at all levels of health care. Food and nutritional education training for primary care health professionals.
• Helping families to have more knowledge about your citizen rights.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Multi-sector interventions

Intervention Type: OTHER

• Multi-sector interventions to enhance food security: Agricultural interventions are matched with field training for government sectors working with quilombolas communities on best agronomic practices to promote technical assistance for this communities. Stimulate the participation in the Program of Food Acquisition, supporting quilombolas agriculture.
• For quilombolas participants: nutritional counseling based on traditional healthy cooking practices, using traditional recipes.
• For health professionals: to strengthen food and nutrition actions at all levels of health care. Food and nutritional education training for primary care health professionals.
• Helping families to have more knowledge about your citizen rights.

Control

Conventional approach of current public food and nutrition policies.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control

Intervention Type: OTHER

Placebo Comparator: Conventional approach of current public food and nutrition policies.

Interventions

Multi-sector interventions

• Multi-sector interventions to enhance food security: Agricultural interventions are matched with field training for government sectors working with quilombolas communities on best agronomic practices to promote technical assistance for this communities. Stimulate the participation in the Program of Food Acquisition, supporting quilombolas agriculture.
• For quilombolas participants: nutritional counseling based on traditional healthy cooking practices, using traditional recipes.
• For health professionals: to strengthen food and nutrition actions at all levels of health care. Food and nutritional education training for primary care health professionals.
• Helping families to have more knowledge about your citizen rights.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Control

Placebo Comparator: Conventional approach of current public food and nutrition policies.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Placebo

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Quilombolas certified communities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with higher prevalence of food insecurity and obesity.

Exclusion Criteria

Community leaders with no interest in study intervention.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Marilda Borges Neutzling

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Marilda Neutzling, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Michele Drehmer, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Daniela Knauth, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Fernanda Bairros, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Locations

Pos-graduated Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Countries

Brazil

References

Pacheco PM, Bairros FS, Neutzling MB, Nunes LN, Knauth DR, Dos Santos FS, Drehmer M. Effectiveness of a Nutrition Counseling Intervention on Food Consumption, According to the Degree of Processing: A Community-Based Non-Randomized Trial of Quilombola Communities in South Brazil. Int J Public Health. 2024 Nov 27;69:1607549. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1607549. eCollection 2024.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 39664767 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

25445

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id