Psychoeducational Intervention Model to Improve Nutritional Status in Low Resource Settings

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Child Overnutrition; Malnutrition in Children; Malnutrition; Child Malnutrition; Malnutrition, Child; Nutrition Disorders, Child
• Interventions: Behavioral: Psychoeducational intervention

• Registration Number: NCT02914002
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Monterrey

Brief Summary

Comer en Familia is a psychoeducational intervention in nutrition aimed to improve nutritional status in families, particularly mothers and caregivers of children between the ages of 5 and 13 years and their children through providing healthy cooking lessons in their communities where the optimal preparation and use of local foods based on vegetables is promoted at the same time the importance of cooking at home and eating as a family is highlighted.

Detailed Description

It is well known that in order to promote a proper nutrition and to prevent malnutrition in Mexican population, both by deficiencies and excesses, it is essential to recover Mexican food culture. It is known that only information is insufficient to implement healthy lifestyles. There are a number of barriers that interfere with the adoption of healthy dietary practices that need to be identified and addressed in order to achieve the adoption of healthy eating behaviors. Therefore, Comer en Familia focuses on the people, their lifestyles, motivations and social context, based on an action methodology. To design the program, culinary traditions from different country regions were integrated, the habits of proper food preparation at home, promoting eating in the company of family with special emphasis on the importance of enjoying the taste of food were also integrated. This model delivers information on the transcendence of preparing food at home, the impact of nutrients on health and the influence of eating habits of the family in the conducts of their members in a practical way. Comer en Familia is a nutritional educational model that aims to promote proper nutrition, and therefore improve health and welfare of the beneficiaries of food banks. Through 24 cooking workshops throughout a period of a year, each workshop every 15 days, communities will be trained in optimal food preparation and the use of local food, based mainly on vegetables, while promoting the importance of cooking and having family meals. Anthropometric evaluations and interviews on food practices will be conducted to the beneficiaries at the beginning and at the end of the program. Anthropometric evaluations will be carried out and psychosocial risks surveys will be applied to the children in charge of the mothers/ caregivers from Comer en Familia. Also, in a sub-sample of the population of mothers/caregivers benefitted from the program, fasting capillary glucose and hemoglobin will be measured at the beginning and at the end of Comer en Familia.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-09-23
• Study First Posted: 2016-09-26
• Primary Completion: 2017-12-19
• Study Completion: 2018-03-01
• Status Verified: 2018-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 2018-05-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 12400

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18 to 50 years
• Premenopausal
• Related to the decision of purchase, planning, elaboration-preparation of meals at home.
• Not being pregnant during the period of the study or the six prior months, and planning not to be pregnant at least 3 months after the last visit of the study.
• With a child in her care between the ages of 5 and 13 years and that fulfills the inclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant or breastfeeding
• With a hysterectomy in the past 3 months
• Alcohol consumption > 14 drinks a week
• Use of vitamin supplements

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Psychoeducational intervention	Psychoeducational intervention	Participants will be receiving a cooking lesson in their community every 2 weeks for 1 year.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in food knowledge and behavior Questionnaire	Baseline, 1 year
Change in Weight	Baseline, 1 year
Change in psychosocial risk Questionnaire	Baseline, 1 year
Change in height	Baseline, 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in capillary glucose	Baseline, 1 year	Capillary blood sample
Change in capillary hemoglobin	Baseline, 1 year	Capillary blood sample

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Banco de Alimentos de Mexico; 🇲🇽 Mexico, Mexico