The Impact of Providing Choices for Fruits and Vegetable Access on Child Diet
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Diet, Healthy
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
- Enrollment
- 68
- Locations
- 7
- Primary Endpoint
- School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) questionnaire elementary version
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Maninder Kahlon
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •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.
- •Caregiver must be able to come to the same "Club on the Go" site every week.
- •At least one child in the family must be k-5 student.
- •Caregiver must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to answer assessments.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Reference child with any medical condition in which they have to follow a specific diet.
- •Caregiver cannot read and write in English or Spanish.
- •Reference child not living with caregiver for majority of time (75% or greater).
- •Families that do not meet the inclusion criteria
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) questionnaire elementary version
Time Frame: 24 hours
dietary recall measure for fruit and vegetables scale of 0-12 with higher scores equating to more vegetable consumption