Impact of Educational Group Intervention on the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables

NCT01209481 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: upeclin/HC/FMB-Unesp-48
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 80
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The right to food and nutrition is established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as they are basic requirements for promoting and protecting good health. They can also be instruments to evaluate the quality of life of human beings and communities. Awareness of a healthy diet is the first step in behavioral change, and nutritional education can be an instrument for avoiding diseases resulting from both intake deficit and excess. Educational group actions can change food intake. This study will aim at evaluating, planning and implementing the impact of a nutritional education group action concerning the consumption of fruit and vegetables in adult and elderly individuals attended to by a Primary Health Care (PHCU) Unit. It will be a randomized assay involving two groups comprising male and females individuals distributed in the following fashion: Intervention Group, in which the educational group action (EGA) will be performed in addition to routine activities; and Control Group, the individuals from which will only participate in the routine activities in the PHCA (Teaching Health Care Unit). The total sample will comprise 80 individuals with 40 in each group. In order to determine the consumption of fruit and vegetables, a weekday and a Sunday 24-hour recalls will be performed 2 (short-term effects) and 6 (medium-term effects) months after completing the intervention. The educational group activities will consist of two-hour group dynamics and cooking workshops once a week and for five weeks. Serum carotenoid dosages will also be performed in the two groups by sub-sampling (n=40) with the purpose to validate the estimated intake of fruit and vegetables obtained from the recalls.

Conditions

Inclusion Criteria:; Adult; No Pregnancy; No Lactation; No Morbidity

Keywords

fruits; vegetables; primary health care; nutritional education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• consumption of fruit and vegetables

  Jan 2011

Study Arms (2)

Nutritional education

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: nutritional education group action

control

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

nutritional education group action BEHAVIORAL

The educational group activities will consist of two-hour group dynamics and cooking workshops once a week and for five weeks.

Nutritional education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 59 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• adult healthy

You may not qualify if:

• pregnancy, lactation, morbidity

Sponsors & Collaborators

• UPECLIN HC FM Botucatu Unesp: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sao Paulo State University, Faculty of Medicine

Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Location

Study Officials

• Maria Antonieta BL Carvalhaes, PHD

  Sao Paulo State University, Faculty of Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Aline GS Pereira, Ms

CONTACT

55-14-38141430; aline_grazi@yahoo.com.br

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 30, 2010
• First Posted: September 27, 2010
• Study Start: September 1, 2010
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2011
• Study Completion: March 1, 2012
• Last Updated: September 27, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-09

Locations

BR (1)