DEAL Trial: Diet, Eating, and Lifestyle Improvement for Valued Employees and Their Relatives
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Quantity of meals prepared and consumed at home.
研究概览
简要总结
Food is widely understood as a cornerstone of health, however multiple barriers stand between well-intentioned, well-informed consumers and the adoption of healthier dietary practices. This mixed-methods randomized controlled trial (RCT) will measure the impact of offering a Community Sustained Agriculture (CSA) share as an employee benefit on household food environments (diets), eating behaviors, and lifestyles.
详细描述
Aim: We will test a strategy to increase frequency of cooking meals at home and consumption of healthful, fresh foods by providing study participants with a CSA membership.
Study design: This is a mixed method randomized controlled trial, with survey, home-food audit, and interview components.
Hypothesis
The intervention group who received a CSA membership as an employee benefit will prepare more meals at home and consume more healthful, fresh foods compared to the control group (no CSA participation).
Using both qualitative and quantitative assessments, outcomes will be measured using 3 primary measures:
- Home food audits at baseline and at week 8 of the intervention. A random selection of participants will have home-food audits completed by members of the research team - those not randomly selected will complete the home-food audit themselves.
- Self-administered surveys, including food frequency questionnaires, at baseline, week 8, and week 16.
- Randomly selected participants will be asked to participate in qualitative interviews at the close of the 16-week intervention period.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Individuals who are non-faculty employees at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Health System.
- •Individuals who score below the median (50th percentile) on dinners prepared at home on screening survey.
排除标准
- •Individuals who are under the age of
- •Individuals who are already have a CSA membership.
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention (CSA membership)
Employees will gain CSA membership - they will receive bi-weekly deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables to a central location near their place of employment.
干预措施: CSA membership (Other)
Control (no CSA membership)
Usual care, usual employee benefits. Employees do not gain CSA membership.
结局指标
主要结局
Quantity of meals prepared and consumed at home.
时间窗: 16 Weeks
次要结局
- Self-reported satisfaction with employee benefits(16 Weeks)
- Time spent preparing meals(16 Weeks)
- Time spent planning meals(16 Weeks)
- Perceived stress regarding food shopping, meal planning, and meal preparation(16 Weeks)
- Knowledge and self-efficacy regarding healthy food preparation(16 Weeks)
研究者
Carolyn Cannuscio
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Pennsylvania