Increasing toddlers' vegetable consumption through interactive shared reading of a vegetable-promoting picture book and puppetry.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Vegetable consumptionOverweightDiet and Nutrition - ObesityPublic Health - Health promotion/education
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12616000133437
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
Boys and girls aged 2-3 years without food allergies.
- From nursery schools without formal fruit and vegetable programs, with children from mostly low-SES households.
- Nursary schools provided active consent, and parents provided passive consent for their children.
Exclusion Criteria
Nursery schools with formal fruit and vegetable programs, children with food allergies.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method CARROT CONSUMPTION:<br>Toddlers were presented with 4 equal-sized bowls, each containing 4 pieces of a different snack. They could choose from 2 healthy snacks (carrots & cucumber), and 2 unhealthy snacks (cheese & salted sticks). It was counted how many pieces of each product toddlers had eaten after the maximum 5 minutes had elapsed. The proportion of consumed carrots was calculated by dividing the pieces of carrots the child had eaten by the total amount of pieces of foods the child had eaten.[After exposure to the intervention (i.e., after 4 days of reading)]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method CHARACTER IMITATION:<br>Observers registered the poses that toddlers physically imitated from the book characters during reading (e.g., eating carrots, being strong). The number of poses demonstrated were summed to create a single measure of character imitation, with a higher score indicating more character imitation.[Observed during each reading, thus 4 times, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.]