NCT04277312

Project Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the Nexus City for Food, Education, Trust and Health

Project Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the Nexus City for Food, Education, Trust and Health'

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,080 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Project Daire is a randomised-controlled factorial design trial working in partnership with primary schools and local food producers evaluating two interventions designed to improve primary school children's knowledge of and interest in food and where it comes from, with the ultimate aim of driving improvement in health, well-being and educational status.

Detailed description

Project Daire is a randomised-controlled factorial design trial working in partnership with primary schools and local food producers evaluating two interventions designed to improve primary school children's knowledge of and interest in food and where it comes from, with the ultimate aim of driving improvement in health, well-being and educational status. Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils will be recruited from 15 primary schools in the North West of Northern Ireland and will be randomised to one of four intervention arms: i) 'Engage', ii) 'Nourish', iii) 'Engage' and 'Nourish' and iv) Delayed of duration up to 6 months. Study outcomes include food knowledge, attitudes, trust, diet, behaviour, health and wellbeing and will be collected at baseline and six months.

Conditions

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Engage	The Engage intervention was developed with input from primary school teachers and includes a range of age-appropriate educational activities related to food. Activities include videos, lesson plans, worksheets, games, talks/visits from experts, visits to industrial partners and other local food-related centres of interest and practical activities such as experiments. All 'Engage' material is mapped to the Northern Ireland School Curriculum. The 'Engage' intervention is structured into three broad topics: Farm to Fork; Pleasure on a Plate and Food Futures. Engage resources were provided to schools electronically and in hard copy and teachers delivered most of the content, with the exception of several sessions which were delivered by visiting scientists.
BEHAVIORAL	Nourish	The Nourish intervention is a school food environment intervention which included weekly healthy snack provision supplied by food industry partners, enhancement of canteen dining area (café style, tablecloths, centre pieces, bunting and menu boards, healthy eating posters), attendance at Tasting Days held in Higher Education Colleges (children were encouraged to try new foods provided by industry partners and received stamps on 'food passports' in return) and sensory educational and cookery activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-07
• Primary completion: 2019-06-27
• Completion: 2019-06-27
• First posted: 2020-02-20
• Last updated: 2020-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom