NCT02280707

Intervention to Promote Water Consumption in School Lunchrooms

Grab a Cup, Fill it up! An Intervention to Promote Convenience of Drinking Water and Increase Student Water Consumption During School Lunch.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study, randomized, delivered, and analyzed at the school level, evaluated the effect of simple, structural changes to school lunch rooms to make drinking water easier for students during lunch time. Half of the schools received posters promoting drinking water and installed cup dispensers stocked with cups next to lunchroom water fountains, while the other half received no intervention. The intervention outcomes were average water consumption and the proportion of students in the lunchroom who opted to drink water, as well as the proportion of students with sugary drinks at lunch. No identifying information on individual children was collected.

Conditions

• Water Consumption
• Schools

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Grab a Cup, Fill it Up	The intervention involved installing promotional posters encouraging students to drink water as well as cup dispensers stocked with disposable 5 ounce cups near water fountains in school lunchrooms.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2014-10-31
• Last updated: 2014-10-31