NCT05605483

Salad Bars in the National School Lunch Program: Impact on Dietary Consumption Patterns in Elementary School Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 6,269 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project is a research study looking at what foods students choose and eat during school lunch and examines how salad bars impact what children eat.

Detailed description

This project applies a wait list control cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate school salad bars. This project uses digital images (pictures) of labeled trays in the cafeteria before and after children eat lunch. This project also asks cafeteria workers about their thoughts about salad bars and their experiences with the salad bar program.

Conditions

• Diet, Food, and Nutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Salad bar	Schools where the school district has installed salad bars
OTHER	Waitlisted control	Schools where the school district has not yet installed salad bars
OTHER	Salad bar post-COVID	Schools where the school distract has re-opened salad bars will have methods repeated in a subset of schools post-COVID-19

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-13
• Primary completion: 2023-04-26
• Completion: 2023-04-26
• First posted: 2022-11-04
• Last updated: 2023-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States