Creating a Comfortable Cafeteria: Staff and Student Feedback - Outcome Study (Cafeteria Prog)

Completed

• Conditions: School Health Services

• Registration Number: NCT02949063
• Lead Sponsor: Mary Jane Karpinski

Brief Summary

A mixed methods design was used to explore the outcomes of a 6-week, occupational therapy-led Comfortable Cafeteria program designed to build capacity of cafeteria supervisors to create a positive mealtime environment so that all students can successfully participate in and enjoy their meal and socialization with peers.

Detailed Description

A mixed methods design was used to explore the outcomes of a 6-week, occupational therapy-led Comfortable Cafeteria program designed to build capacity of cafeteria supervisors to create a positive mealtime environment so that all students can successfully participate in and enjoy their meal and socialization with peers. Statistically significant improvements in pretest posttest visual analogue scale ratings of participation in and enjoyment for students with low and mid-range scores at the outset was found. Cafeteria supervisors demonstrated statistically significant improvements in perceptions of having the knowledge and skills to supervise and to encourage healthy eating based on pretest posttest ratings. Qualitative findings add further insight about the program suggesting that students learned prosocial values (e.g. being kind, helping others), supervisors actively encouraged positive social interaction, and occupational therapy practitioners enjoyed implementing the Comfortable Cafeteria program and recognized positive supervisor and student changes as a result of integrating services in the cafeteria.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-03
• Primary Completion: 2014-03
• Study Completion: 2014-03
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-28
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-31
• Last Update Posted: 2016-10-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 366

Inclusion Criteria

• Students participating in lunch from a particular grade
• Cafeteria supervisors of those children
• Students with parental consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Students who did not have parental consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
students' participation during lunch	within 6 weeks	Visual analogue scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
survey of cafeteria supervisor's knowledge, beliefs and actions related to supervising students in the cafeteria	6 weeks	written pre and post-survey