Peer-mentored Cooking Classes for Parents of Toddlers: Do Families Cook More and Eat Healthier After the Intervention?

NCT01710423 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 12-009579
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 47
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to test the effectiveness of a community-located, peer mentored intervention to improve home food preparation practices in families with young children.

Conditions

Obesity

Keywords

Obesity; Nutrition; Home Food Preparation; Peer Mentoring; Early Head Start; Cooking; Diet

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Food Frequency Questionnaire

  The primary outcome will be the change in healthfulness of the diet as measured by food frequency questionnaires for participants through the course of the study. Study staff will meet with each participant and ask them to answer questions about the frequency of their food and beverage consumption over the course of a 12 month period. The results will be analyzed for consumption of specific food-groups (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, etc.). The primary endpoint is the difference in the healthfulness of the diet between the immediate intervention group and the control group at week 23.

  23 weeks from Baseline

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Cooking-related self-efficacy

  23 weeks from Baseline

• Home food preparation practices

  23 weeks from Baseline

• Body mass index

  41 weeks from Baseline

Study Arms (2)

Immediate Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends')

Behavioral: Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends')

Delayed Entry Control

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends') BEHAVIORAL

'Cooking with Friends' is a community-located, peer mentoring intervention aimed at improving home food preparation practices in families with young children. The intervention was developed in an iterative, community-based research approach, and will be conducted in partnership with Early Head Start (EHS) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Cooking with Friends builds on existing monthly cooking classes at EHS that have proven popular with EHS families. Through 5 weekly classes, this intervention will explore topics of how to prepare healthy foods at home. The peer mentoring component is a novel innovation to this intervention. The intervention pairs peer mentors to individual mentees in a community setting, to effect behavioral change among caregivers of young children.

Immediate Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Eligible mentees will be caregivers of 0-3 year old children who are enrolled in Early Head Start at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP EHS) at the time of recruitment.
• Caregiver enrollment in CHOP EHS requires the following:
• Children are 0-3 years old (Expectant mothers are also eligible to enroll)
• The family has an income at or below federal poverty level
• The family lives in West Philadelphia, within the geographic area served by CHOP EHS.
• Caregiver is able to give informed consent.
• The study team, in conjunction with EHS staff, will decide which participants will be invited to be peer mentors, based on attributes including interest, leadership ability, and home food preparation skills.
• year old children of mentee caregivers enrolled in the study
• If a mentee caregiver has more than one child currently enrolled in CHOP EHS, then all their eligible children will be enrolled in the study.
• If there are expectant mothers who are enrolled as mentees, their children will be enrolled in the study upon delivery.

You may not qualify if:

• Subjects who, in the opinion of the Investigator, may be unable to participate in the study schedules or procedures.
• Children of peer mentors will not be eligible for this study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: lead

Study Sites (1)

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

Cooking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overweight; Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Food Handling; Food Industry; Industry; Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Study Officials

• Senbagam Virudachalam, MD, MSHP

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 17, 2012
• First Posted: October 19, 2012
• Study Start: November 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2013
• Study Completion: November 1, 2013
• Last Updated: February 5, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-02

Locations

US (1)