NCT03641521

A Trial to Increase Child Vegetable Intake Through Behavioral Strategies

A Controlled-intervention Trial to Increase Child Vegetable Intake Through Parent-implemented Behavioral Strategies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Minnesota · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	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).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-24
• Primary completion: 2017-05-02
• Completion: 2017-05-02
• First posted: 2018-08-22
• Last updated: 2019-07-12