Increasing Adoption of Fruits and Vegetables Into Family Diet

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diet, Healthy
• Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Weekly produce box and gift card

• Registration Number: NCT04827654
• Lead Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Brief Summary

The investigators are interested in maximizing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (F\&V) in elementary school children by increasing the access to F\&V by providing them in the home environment via direct delivery (F\&V bag \& recipes) and a gift card to purchase preferred choices. This also decreases barriers to trying F\&V and switching to a more F\&V-focused diet, e.g., access, cost, knowledge of what to do with fruits and vegetables by their families in household diet, and a period of time to try and get used to more F\&V in the diet without worrying about access and cost.

We hypothesize that at the end of 4 weeks, children in families that were given access to a F\&V produce box with associated recipes, a gift card to purchase preferred choices, and a cooking incentive kit, consumed significantly better diets as measured with a diet composite score compared with children in families who did not receive increased F\&V access.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-29
• Study Start: 2021-03-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-31
• Study First Posted: 2021-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-30
• Study Completion: 2021-07-31
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-27
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 68

Inclusion Criteria

1. Families must be participants in the Boys and Girls "Club on the Go" program. They could sign up to become a participant while we are recruiting.
2. Caregiver must be able to come to the same "Club on the Go" site every week.
3. At least one child in the family must be k-5 student.
4. Caregiver must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to answer assessments.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Reference child with any medical condition in which they have to follow a specific diet.
2. Caregiver cannot read and write in English or Spanish.
3. Reference child not living with caregiver for majority of time (75% or greater).
4. Families that do not meet the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Weekly produce box and gift card	Families in the intervention arm will receive a program of 4 weeks of access to fruit and vegetables through direct access (produce box) and a gift card to the grocery store for purchase of preferred produce.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) questionnaire elementary version	24 hours	dietary recall measure for fruit and vegetables scale of 0-12 with higher scores equating to more vegetable consumption

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

Booker T. Washington; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Meadowbrook Elementary School; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Walnut Creek Elementary School; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Chalmers Court; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Home Club; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Elgin High School; 🇺🇸 Elgin, Texas, United States

NYOS Kramer; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States