Effects of School Gardens on Children's Diet, Nutritional Knowledge, Etc.

NCT02166034 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CN-CGP-11-0047
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 3,531
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 4

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether school gardens influence children's dietary intake, nutritional knowledge, and other outcomes.

Conditions

Dietary Habits

Keywords

children; fruit; vegetable; diet; school; garden

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• change in fruit + vegetable intake at school

  Children's lunch trays are photographed before and after lunch for 3 days at each wave of data collection. Digital Food Image Analysis software computes grams of fruit and grams of vegetables consumed for each pair of lunch tray photos.

  change from baseline to follow-up at 6, 12, 18 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Garden Intervention Fidelity

  At 3 garden intervention time points -- 6, 12, 18 months after baseline

• change fruit & vegetable consumption at home

  change from baseline (Fall 2011) to follow-up at 6 months, 12 months, 18 months.

• change in Nutritional Knowledge

  change from baseline to follow-up at 6, 12, 18 months

• change in Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) self efficacy

  change from baseline (Fall 2011) to follow-up at 6, 12, 18 months.

Study Arms (2)

garden intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Schools assigned to the garden intervention receive raised bed garden kits and access to a toolkit of garden-based curriculum

Behavioral: garden intervention

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Wait-list control (no garden intervention + lessons) until end of the study.

Interventions

garden intervention BEHAVIORAL

The intervention includes raised bed garden kits for participating classes as well as access to garden-based curriculum.

garden intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Schools had at least 50% of enrolled children qualifying for free + reduced price meals (FRPM)
• Schools did not already have a school garden.

You may not qualify if:

• none.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cornell University: lead
• Washington State University: collaborator
• University of Arkansas: collaborator
• Iowa State University: collaborator

Study Sites (4)

Schools in Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas, 72204, United States

Location

Schools in Iowa

Osceola, Iowa, 50213, United States

Location

Schools in New York State

Ithaca, New York, 14850, United States

Location

Schools in Washington State

Tacoma, Washington, 98418, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Wells NM, Meyers BM, Todd LE, Henderson CR Jr, Barale K, Gaolach B, Ferenz G, Aitken M, Tse CC, Pattison KO, Hendrix L, Carson JB, Taylor C, Franz NK. The carry-over effects of school gardens on fruit and vegetable availability at home: A randomized controlled trial with low-income elementary schools. Prev Med. 2018 Jul;112:152-159. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.03.022. Epub 2018 Apr 5.

  PMID: 29627512 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Behavior

Study Officials

• Nancy M Wells, PhD

  Cornell University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 15, 2014
• First Posted: June 18, 2014
• Study Start: August 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2013
• Study Completion: June 1, 2013
• Last Updated: June 18, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-05

Locations

US (4)