NCT06714929

Advancing Water Security: A Community Participatory School-Based Hydration Intervention

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 7,200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of a community-participatory hydration intervention over 3 years within a district that has newly installed hydration stations and is operating under a policy designed to enhance heathy hydration practices and promote equitable access to drinking water.

Detailed description

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a hydration intervention on hydration station usage (primary outcome), Body Mass Index z-scores (zBMI) and dental caries (primary biomedical outcomes), and water bottle usage, beverage selection and intake, and academic outcomes (secondary outcomes).

Conditions

• Dental Caries
• Obesity Prevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hydration	Clusters of schools will sequentially be exposed to the intervention in a stepped-wedge fashion. The intervention is a 4-month community participatory school-based hydration intervention that includes provision of refillable water bottles in schools with hydration stations in addition to: 1) social marketing, 2) behavioral reinforcement, and 3) education and outreach.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-14
• Primary completion: 2027-05-31
• Completion: 2028-05-31
• First posted: 2024-12-04
• Last updated: 2025-06-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States