A Randomized Comparison Trial Examining the Impact of a Family-based Cooking Workshop

NCT ID: NCT04056052

Last Updated: 2019-08-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 65 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-01-31

Brief Summary

Increasing fruit and vegetable intake is important to health but children's vegetable intake remains low. In younger age groups parents act as gatekeepers by providing access, availability, persuasion and modelling. This study aimed to enhance parent vegetable serving behaviour and child vegetable intake through an 8-week social cognitive theory-based family cooking program.

Conditions

Diet Habit

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Home Activity Only

Over the 8-week project, families were asked to try eight different vegetable recipes from a choice of 12. All family members could participate in the home activities as the families wished. Families were also asked to complete a weekly recipe cooking tracking sheet.

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Mind the Gap: Home Activity Only

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The primary focus of the home activity program was based on collaborative parent-child cooking activities which the families undertook themselves at home. There were two key tasks: the first was to add one extra vegetable to the evening meal each day, the second was to select, prepare and cook one recipe from the cook book each week.

Home Activity + cooking Workshop

The 8-week cooking workshop condition incorporated all of the home activities previously described, however, this cohort also participated in two, two-hour cooking workshops held at a local cooking school.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mind the Gap: Home Activity + cooking Workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The main purpose of these workshops was to provide hands-on successful food preparation and cooking experiences for the families and several opportunities to taste new vegetable-based recipes as well as promoting knowledge of cost and healthy eating. Children and their parents were then encouraged to take whatever was learned and apply it at home.

Interventions

Mind the Gap: Home Activity Only

The primary focus of the home activity program was based on collaborative parent-child cooking activities which the families undertook themselves at home. There were two key tasks: the first was to add one extra vegetable to the evening meal each day, the second was to select, prepare and cook one recipe from the cook book each week.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Mind the Gap: Home Activity + cooking Workshop

The main purpose of these workshops was to provide hands-on successful food preparation and cooking experiences for the families and several opportunities to taste new vegetable-based recipes as well as promoting knowledge of cost and healthy eating. Children and their parents were then encouraged to take whatever was learned and apply it at home.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• a family unit consisting of at least one parent and one child
• parents aged between 25 and 55 years of age
• children aged between nine and 13 years of age.

Exclusion Criteria

• ability to comprehend English
• Participation of both the parent and the child

• Minimum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Victoria

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sam Liu

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Patti-Jean Naylor, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Victoria

Locations

University of Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

UVic2012SCT

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id