A Trial to Increase Child Vegetable Intake Through Behavioral Strategies

NCT ID: NCT03641521

Last Updated: 2019-07-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 103 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-09-24
• Study Completion Date: 2017-05-02

Brief Summary

A community nutrition trial among a diverse low-income population that tested the effect of parent-child cooking nutrition intervention on vegetable intake among 9-12 children.

Detailed Description

This study was a nonrandomized, controlled trial to determine whether a series of 6 weekly parent-child vegetable cooking skills classes and parent-led strategies informed by behavioral economics (1/week) (intervention group) improved dietary and non-dietary outcomes of a racially and ethnically diverse sample of low-income children (ages 9-12) more than a vegetable cooking skills program alone (control group).

Conditions

Obesity, Childhood

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention

The intervention consisted of an enhanced Cooking Matters® for Families program that included behavioral strategies derived from behavioral economics, to be implemented by parents at home for increasing vegetable intake of low-income 9-12 year old children

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Parent-led behavioral strategies

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Intervention parents participated in an additional 20-25-min segment led by the nutrition educator during which the week's behavioral strategy was introduced. The following six behavioral strategies were introduced (one each week) as a segment of each cooking skills session: 1) have your child help prepare vegetables for meals (Child Help), 2) use a plate that shows the amount of vegetables to include for a meal (My Plate), 3) make vegetables visible and accessible by removing other foods from the dining area during the meal and leaving the vegetables (Make Avail/Visible), 4) serve at least 2 vegetables with the meal (Serve 2), 5) serve vegetables before the meal (Serve First), and 6) use a bigger spoon to serve the vegetables (Big Spoon).

Control

The control arm consisted of the enhanced Cooking Matters® for Families program alone--without lessons about the behavioral strategies for the parents

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Parent-led behavioral strategies

Intervention parents participated in an additional 20-25-min segment led by the nutrition educator during which the week's behavioral strategy was introduced. The following six behavioral strategies were introduced (one each week) as a segment of each cooking skills session: 1) have your child help prepare vegetables for meals (Child Help), 2) use a plate that shows the amount of vegetables to include for a meal (My Plate), 3) make vegetables visible and accessible by removing other foods from the dining area during the meal and leaving the vegetables (Make Avail/Visible), 4) serve at least 2 vegetables with the meal (Serve 2), 5) serve vegetables before the meal (Serve First), and 6) use a bigger spoon to serve the vegetables (Big Spoon).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Participant child must be 9-12 years old
• Parent must be the main food preparer for the household
• The family must qualify for some form of public assistance
• Have a phone
• Must not have participated in a previous Cooking Matters for Families in the past 3 years
• Be able to read, speak, and understand English (or Spanish for Spanish-only courses).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Minnesota

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Marla Reicks, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Minnesota

References

Overcash F, Ritter A, Mann T, Mykerezi E, Redden J, Rendahl A, Vickers Z, Reicks M. Impacts of a Vegetable Cooking Skills Program Among Low-Income Parents and Children. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2018 Sep;50(8):795-802. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2017.10.016. Epub 2017 Dec 12.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 29242140 (View on PubMed)

Overcash FM, Reicks M, Ritter A, Leak TM, Swenson A, Vickers Z. Children Residing in Low-Income Households Like a Variety of Vegetables. Foods. 2018 Jul 20;7(7):116. doi: 10.3390/foods7070116.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 30036932 (View on PubMed)

Overcash FM, Vickers Z, Ritter AE, Mann T, Mykerezi E, Redden J, Rendahl AK, Davey C, Reicks M. An in-home intervention of parent-implemented strategies to increase child vegetable intake: results from a non-randomized cluster-allocated community trial. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jul 4;19(1):881. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7079-4.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 31272404 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

1111S06501

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id