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
- •CHILD PARTICIPANTS
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •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
研究组 & 干预措施
Healthy Eating + Eco-Friendly Campaign
干预措施: Healthy Eating + Eco-Friendly Campaign (Behavioral)
Healthy Eating Campaign
干预措施: Healthy Eating Campaign (Behavioral)
Control/Delayed Intervention
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 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)
- Changes in trash weight associated with foods brought from home to school(6 months)