The GREEN (Growing Right: Eating Eco-Friendly & Nutritious) Project Lunch Box Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 979
- 主要终点
- Changes in the quantity of fruit and vegetables brought from home to school
研究概览
简要总结
The central hypothesis of The GREEN Project Lunch Box Study is that a school-based communication campaign that combines healthy eating and eco-friendly messages will improve the quality of foods that children bring from home to school more than a healthy eating campaign alone and compared to a control/delayed intervention condition at the end of one school year.
详细描述
The proposed intervention seeks to improve the quality of foods brought to school from home by taking advantage of a natural synergy between healthy eating and eco-friendly behaviors to increase motivation to adopt healthy eating behaviors. The project involves the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel, school based communications campaign to simultaneously improve the nutrition quality and eco-friendliness of foods that elementary school children bring from home to school.
The intervention is a theory-based multi-channel communications campaign based on qualitative research with the target population: children in grades three and four in public schools in Eastern Massachusetts and their caregivers. Schools were randomized to one of three conditions: (1) a campaign that includes healthy eating and eco-friendly messages; (2) a campaign that includes healthy eating messages only; and (3) a delayed healthy eating eco-friendly campaign after serving as a control group. Foods brought from home and the packaging associated with those foods will be assessed at baseline and at the end of the school year using a photographic technique.
The primary outcome of interest is change in the number of servings of fruits and vegetables. Secondary outcomes will include changes in the quantity of sugar-sweetened beverages; changes in processed, energy-dense foods; and changes in sugar sweetened beverages brought from home. We will also be able to assess changes in trash associated with foods brought from home.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •3rd or 4th grade student in participating classroom
- •Brings food from home to school at least 3 days per week
排除标准
- •Not a 3rd or 4th grade student
- •Not enrolled in a participating classroom
- •Does not bring food from home to school at least three days per week
- •PARENT/CARETAKER PARTICIPANTS
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •Child is a 3rd or 4th grade student in participating classroom
- •Child brings food from home to school at least 3 days per week
- •Exclusion Criteria:
- •Child is not a 3rd or 4th grade student
- •Child is not enrolled in a participating classroom
- •Child does not bring food from home to school at least three days per week
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in the quantity of fruit and vegetables brought from home to school
时间窗: 6 months
次要结局
- Changes in trash weight associated with foods brought from home to school(6 months)
- Changes in the quantity of processed, energy-dense foods brought from home to school(6 months)
- Changes in the quantity of sugar-sweetened beverages brought from home to school(6 months)