NCT02463149

Pilot Evaluation of Youth Chef Academy

Pilot Evaluation of Youth Chef Academy: A Plant-based Cooking Program for Urban Middle School Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 248 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project examined the effectiveness of Youth Chef Academy (YCA), a classroom-based experiential culinary and nutrition literacy curriculum for middle-school students. The primary study hypothesis was that students assigned to YCA would demonstrate greater improvement in F/V and whole grain consumption compared to students in the control group. Eight classrooms in eight public K-8 schools participated in the project. Classrooms were assigned to intervention or control condition in a non-randomized manner. YCA was delivered by project staff to all of the students in the four intervention classrooms. Students completed a survey to assess primary and secondary outcomes at baseline, six-week curriculum completion, and at twelve-week curriculum completion (YCA extended twelve-week curriculum cohort).

Conditions

• Dietary Modification
• Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Youth Chef Academy	Nutrition and culinary curriculum delivered in the classroom

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2015-06-04
• Last updated: 2015-06-04