Effectiveness of the Numerous Educational Strategy Interventions Seeking to Increase the Water Consume in Child

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Water Consumption; Healthy Lifestyle; Elementary School
• Interventions: Behavioral: "I Prefer Plain Water"

• Registration Number: NCT03254615
• Lead Sponsor: Jose Francisco Gonzalez-Zamora

Brief Summary

The current project seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of numerous educational strategy interventions to increase the percentage of water consumed among early elementary school students over a 1-year period.

Detailed Description

A community intervention trial will be conducted at four public elementary schools of the Coyoacan Delegation in Mexico City. It will include healthy first graders during the 2017-2018 school year whose parents agree to participate through verbal informed consent and a signed privacy notice. These parents will complete a baseline 3-day beverage record (two weekdays and one weekend day). The four schools will be assigned to one of three groups: Group I will receive the educational strategy during the first grade; Group II will receive it during first and second grades; and Group III will receive it during the first, second, and third grades. All schools will have water dispensers inside the classrooms, and the children will receive a reusable 600-mL bottle so they are able to consume water on demand throughout the day. A second record of beverage consumption will be obtained by completing multiple interventions within each group, and a third record will be completed 1 year later.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-08-16
• Study First Posted: 2017-08-18
• Study Start: 2018-08-13
• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-10
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-11
• Primary Completion: 2022-08
• Study Completion: 2022-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 329

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy children
• Both girls and boys
• Children whose parents agree to participation in the study through verbal informed consent
• Children whose parents sign a privacy notice

Exclusion Criteria

• Children who present with any pathology that interferes with the free consumption of water or with the proper execution of the study
• Children for whom it is not possible to obtain a baseline record of beverage consumption

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group 2	"I Prefer Plain Water"	Group II will receive "I Prefer Plain Water" during first and second grades
Group 1	"I Prefer Plain Water"	Group I will receive "I Prefer Plain Water" only during the first grade
Group 3	"I Prefer Plain Water"	Group III will receive "I Prefer Plain Water" during first, second, and third grades

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percentage of water consumed	Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year	Changes in average water consumption/ total liquid consumption
Total liquid Consumption	Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year	Changes in the average of total liquids consumed per child over a 3-day period
Water consumption	Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year	Changes in the average of water consumption per child over a 3-day period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Effectiveness of educational strategy	Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year	Changes in the percentage of water consumed, 1 year after completing the interventions within each group relative to baseline measurement

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Instituto Nacional de Pediatria; 🇲🇽 Ciudad de Mexico, Coyoacan, Mexico