Evaluating "New Foods Take Time", a Classroom-based Curriculum Designed to Promote Tasting and Liking of Fruits and Vegetables Among Head Start Preschool Children
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in self-competence to try new foods
研究概览
简要总结
The overall objective of this project is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "New Foods Take Time" Intervention in Head Start preschool classrooms.
详细描述
The overall objective of this project is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "New Foods Take Time" Intervention. This curriculum is designed to increase children's preference for and consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) by encouraging children to try new FV and repeatedly taste these foods.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Enrolled in a Head Start preschool center
- •Between the ages of 2 and 5 years old
排除标准
- •Food allergy or restriction to foods in the tastings
- •Parent Inclusion Criteria:
- •Parent or primary caregiver of a child enrolled in the study
- •Age 18 years or older
- •English speaking
- •Parent Exclusion Criteria:
- •Teacher Inclusion Criteria:
- •Actively employed as an early childhood education provider in the Head Start classroom where the intervention is delivered
- •Age 18 years or older
- •Teacher Exclusion Criteria:
结局指标
主要结局
Change in self-competence to try new foods
时间窗: Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention
Children will be presented with a series pairs of drawings with descriptions (e.g., "This boy likes to try new foods" and "This boy does not like to try new foods") and asked to select which is most like them.
Change in liking of study foods
时间窗: Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention
For foods that children agree to taste, they will be asked to rate their liking of them on a three point likert-type scale ("Yummy", "Just ok", or "Yucky")
Change in number of foods tasted
时间窗: Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention
Children will be presented with small portions of familiar and novel fruits and vegetables and be asked if they would like to taste them
Teacher acceptability of intervention
时间窗: At conclusion of 5 week intervention
Teachers will complete a questionnaire with scaled and open-ended questions about the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Jennifer Savage Williams
Associate Professor
Penn State University