Kids' Choice Restaurant Program

NCT02511938 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: R21HD071324
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 106
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will introduce healthy child menu items into 8 independent full service restaurants in San Diego County. The restaurants will be assigned either to receive new, healthy kids' menu items or to receive the new menu items in addition to marketing materials and staff trainings to support promotion of these new menu items. The primary outcome for the study is sales of kids' menu items. Additional customer observation and interview data will be collected, as well as manager interviews and restaurant environment assessments. Process evaluation measures will also evaluate the implementation of the intervention.

Conditions

Childhood Obesity

Keywords

childhood obesity; restaurant; away from home foods

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Sales ($) of kids' menu items

  Change in weekly sales ($) of kids' menu items as a proportion of total restaurant sales between baseline, intervention period, and post-intervention

  weekly throughout study period (4 wk baseline, 8 wk Ix phase, 4 week post-ix)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Customer observations/interviews

  every other week throughout study period (4 wk baseline, 8 wk Ix phase, 4 week post-ix)

Study Arms (2)

Menu Only intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Restaurants will receive a new healthy kids' menu

Other: Menu Only

Menu Plus Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Restaurants will receive a new healthy kids' menu, supporting marketing materials, and brief trainings for customer service staff and kitchen staff to support and promote the new menu items.

Other: Menu Plus intervention

Interventions

Menu Only OTHER

Restaurants will collaborate with project to develop and introduce new healthy kid's menu items. Project will provide recipes, preparation support, nutritional information, and printed menus to restaurants.

Menu Only intervention

Menu Plus intervention OTHER

Restaurants will collaborate with project to develop and introduce new healthy kid's menu items. Project will provide recipes, preparation support, nutritional information, and printed menus to restaurants. In addition, project will provide promotional materials and brief restaurant staff trainings to promote the new menu.

Menu Plus Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Restaurant dining parties having at least one adult 18 or older and one child in party who appears to be between the ages of 3--17 years
• Dining parties including no more than six people
• Party speaks English and/or Spanish

You may not qualify if:

• Party does not speak English and/or Spanish
• Parties larger than six people
• For restaurant manager interviews:
• At least 18 years of age
• Has worked at restaurant at least 4 months
• Works at least 20 hours per week for the restaurant
• Plans to continue working at the restaurant for at least 6 months
• Speaks and writes English and/or Spanish

Sponsors & Collaborators

• San Diego State University: lead

Study Sites (1)

SDSU Research Foundation

San Diego, California, 92182, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Ayala GX, Castro IA, Pickrel JL, Williams CB, Lin SF, Madanat H, Jun HJ, Zive M. A restaurant-based intervention to promote sales of healthy children's menu items: the Kids' Choice Restaurant Program cluster randomized trial. BMC Public Health. 2016 Mar 10;16:250. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2892-5.

  PMID: 26965639 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

Methods

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Investigative Techniques

Study Officials

• Guadalupe X Ayala, PhD, MPH

  San Diego State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Dean

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 21, 2015
• First Posted: July 30, 2015
• Study Start: December 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2015
• Study Completion: November 1, 2015
• Last Updated: April 26, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-04

Locations

US (1)