NCT03694782

Community Gardens Participation in Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles in Urban Settings: the JArDinS Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 150 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The JArDinS study is a quasi-experimental research that aimed at assessing the impact of community garden participation (a natural experiment) in the adoption of more sustainable lifestyles.

Detailed description

The JArDinS study is part of the SURFOOD-Foodscapes project evaluating the relationships between urban foodscape and food styles in Montpellier Metropole (France). JArDinS consists of a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research and includes an experimental group of new gardeners starting gardening in a community garden in Montpellier and a control group comprising participants from a survey on food behaviors undertaken as part of SURFOOD-Foodscapes project. Participants will be surveyed at enrollment and 12 months later.

Conditions

• Sustainable Lifestyles

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Food diary supply	Each participant was issued with a food supply diary to record details of their household food supply and related trips over 1-mo period. Household food supply included food purchases, food gift/donation, and potential crops from the garden. Away-from-home food consumption was not recorded. For each food purchase, participants provided details of date, place of purchase, foods purchased (name, quantity and expense incurred), and trip made (origin/where the trip started, destination/where the trip ended, and mode of transportation). When till receipts were available in grocery stores or supermarkets, participants were asked to collect them in an envelope placed at the end of the food supply diary. To facilitate data entry, all family members were encouraged to help filling out the diary.
BEHAVIORAL	Actigraph	Participants were instructed to wear a triaxial accelerometer (wGT3X-BT or wActiSleep-BT, Actigraph, Pensacola, FL, USA) fitted with an elastic strap on right side of the hip for 9 consecutive days, except for bathing and performing activities in the water. The Actigraph was accompanied by an activity logbook in which participants were required to daily record time when awake and sleeping, and, if any, time and duration of workout or device removal
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaire	Participants received by email a link to complete an online questionnaire about mental and social health, sensibility to food waste, and connection with nature

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2020-02-10
• Completion: 2020-02-10
• First posted: 2018-10-03
• Last updated: 2020-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France