Children Food Neophobia - a Playful Intervention at a Kindergarten

NCT03513081 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ChildNeophobia
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 82
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The aim of this project is to investigate the efficacy of taste exposure-plus small reward in acceptance and consumption of vegetables among preschool children at school. In this context, interventions were attended at school in order to capture the influence of this environments towards consumption of vegetables among preschool children. For this, the methodology applied will be a repeated exposure protocol by introducing small rewards to encourage children to taste an unfamiliar or dislike food. Child intake (weight or number of pieces) and liking (hedonic scale) will be assessed at baseline sessions and exposure sessions. Moreover, child's neophobia will be evaluated and additional determinants of child neophobia, such as child's eating behaviour

Conditions

Preschool Children

Keywords

food neophobia; preschool; children

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Child Food Neophobia

  Child Food Neophobia Scale (Pliner 1994) - this scale is composed of ten questions, being answered by parents in a scale from one to seven, in which number one means "very similar to the reality of my child" and seven means "extremely distant to the reality of my child". This scale is able to evaluate child's food neophobia and child's food neophilia

  4 months

• Child Eating Behaviour

  Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (Wardle, Guthrie et al. 2001) translated and adapted for portuguese reality by Viana et al (Viana and Sinde 2008). This questionnaire is answered by parents to evaluate child's eating behaviour and is composed of 35 questions. In each question the answer is in a scale from one to five, in which one means "never" and five means "always".

  4 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Intake of an unfamiliar salad

  4 months

Study Arms (2)

Educative Session

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental group receive nine educational sessions (one per week) about different vegetables and, at lunch time, they are exposed to a different vegetable. If they try it, they will receive a sticker. In each session, researcher will record their preference for the vegetable and the quantity that they consumed in a scale from one to three (1- the child tasted it; 2 - the child repeated it; 3 - the child ate all the quantity). In the end of 9 sessions, all children (experimental and control group) will receive the same salad that they had eaten at baseline and the procedure will be the same: the salad is weighted before and after the consumption of each child to verify the quantity of each one ate.

Behavioral: Educative session

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Children in the control group don´t receive an educative session. Before the study starts children are asked to eat a salad. After 9 weeks, all children in the control group will receive the same salad that they had eaten at baseline and the procedure will be the same: the salad is weighted before and after the consumption of each child to verify the quantity of each one ate.

Interventions

Educative session BEHAVIORAL

The experimental group receive nine educational sessions (one per week) about different vegetables and, at lunch time, they are exposed to a different vegetable. If they try it, they will receive a sticker. In each session, researcher will record their preference for the vegetable and the quantity that they consumed in a scale from one to three (1- the child prooved it; 2 - the child repeated it; 3 - the child ate all the quantity). In the end of 9 sessions, all children (experimental and control group) will receive the same salad that they had eaten at baseline and the procedure will be the same: the salad is weighted before and after the consumption of each child to verify the quantity of each one ate.

Educative Session

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 6 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• children attending an educational institution

You may not qualify if:

• children with cognitive impairment

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Instituto Politécnico de Leiria: lead
• Universidade do Porto: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Feeding and Eating Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Luis Cunha, PhD

  Universidade do Porto

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 16, 2018
• First Posted: May 1, 2018
• Study Start: October 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2016
• Study Completion: September 1, 2018
• Last Updated: March 13, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03