Increasing Vegetable Intake in Children
2 other identifiers
interventional
600
1 country
1
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of an innovative approach to increase the amount of vegetable's (V) intake consumed by preschool children who are predominately African-American (AA) and Hispanic-American (HA).
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable obesity
Started Jul 2012
Longer than P75 for not_applicable obesity
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
July 1, 2012
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 6, 2014
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 15, 2014
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 1, 2016
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 1, 2016
CompletedJuly 12, 2017
July 1, 2017
4.4 years
August 6, 2014
July 11, 2017
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Vegetable Intake in Preschool Children
There will be 2 phases to program development: diagnostic and formative. The diagnostic phase will consist of 20 individual interviews with child-care providers and parents (½ AA, ½ HA) and 20 interviews with preschool children (½ AA, ½ HA).In addition the parents will be asked to complete the Cooking Confidence Questionnaire, the Barriers and Facilitators Questionnaire on Vegetables and a list of their child's favorite vegetables before coming to the interview. Implementation will include the showing of the 4 video-taped puppet shows to 10-12 children immediately prior to the lunch meal on 4 consecutive days. These children will be assessed at lunch using the digital diet estimation method.
1 year 11 months
Study Arms (2)
AA - Increase vegetable intake
EXPERIMENTAL60 African-American (AA) preschool children will participate in the Intervention Group. 60 AA children will belong to the Control Group. 6-week Intervention: 120 AA and HA children will be shown the Puppet Shows and will be given a bag of ingredients to prepare the vegetable highlighted that week in the Puppet Show. The 6 week intervention includes a baseline assessment (1 week), followed by the intervention (4 weeks), and post assessment (1 week). The primary hypothesis to be tested is children who receive the PUPPET intervention with a parent/teacher component will demonstrate "increase vegetable intake in pre-school children".
HA - Increase vegetable intake
EXPERIMENTAL60 Hispanic-American (HA) preschool children will participate in the Intervention Group. 60 HA children will belong to the Control Group. 6-week Intervention: 120 AA and HA children will be shown the Puppet Shows and will be given a bag of ingredients to prepare the vegetable highlighted that week in the Puppet Show. The 6 week intervention includes a baseline assessment (1 week), followed by the intervention (4 weeks), and post assessment (1 week). The primary hypothesis to be tested is children who receive the PUPPET intervention with a parent/teacher component will demonstrate "increase vegetable intake in pre-school children".
Interventions
6-week Intervention: 120 AA and HA children will be shown the Puppet Shows and will be given a bag of ingredients to prepare the vegetable highlighted that week in the Puppet Show. The 6 week intervention includes a baseline assessment (1 week), followed by the intervention (4 weeks), and post assessment (1 week). The primary hypothesis to be tested is children who receive the PUPPET intervention with a parent/teacher component will demonstrate "increase vegetable intake in pre-school children".
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Healthy
- non-patient
- normals
- African-american
- Hispanic-american
- to 5 y olds
You may not qualify if:
- pregnant woman
- neonates
- dietary restrictions
- chronic disease
- developmental disabilities
- special education
- does not read or write in spanish or english
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Related Publications (1)
Nicklas T, Lopez S, Liu Y, Saab R, Reiher R. Motivational theater to increase consumption of vegetable dishes by preschool children. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2017 Feb 7;14(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12966-017-0468-0.
PMID: 28166788DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Theresa A Nicklas, DrPH
Baylor College of Medicine
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT
- Purpose
- OTHER
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 6, 2014
First Posted
August 15, 2014
Study Start
July 1, 2012
Primary Completion
December 1, 2016
Study Completion
December 1, 2016
Last Updated
July 12, 2017
Record last verified: 2017-07