Effects of a School-based Intervention to Increase the Water Consumption in Elementary School Children

NCT03852173 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: H2NOE-Wasserschule
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,485
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this controlled intervention study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention aiming at increasing the water consumption in elementary school children. The intervention schools received refillable water bottles and drying racks for all school children as well as educational material. The focus of the intervention is the promotion of drinking tap water.

Conditions

Water Consumption; Drinking Behavior

Keywords

Child; Health promotion; longitudinal studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; beverages; Water/administration & dosage; Austria; Program evaluation; Students/statistics & numerical data; Food Preferences; Follow-Up Studies; school setting; behavioural change

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in water consumption of school children (from baseline to post-intervention and follow-up)

  consumption of tap water, in number of glasses (with 1 glass defined as 200 mL) per day/ during school time (self-report)

  baseline, end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months), follow-up (after two school years, 21 months)

• Change of attitude of school children towards drinking water (from baseline to post-intervention and follow-up)

  preference for water and sugar-sweetened beverages (measured as agreement to various statements regarding water and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption with 5 likert-scale answer categories: yes, that's right; yes, mostly; no, mostly not; no, not true; I don't know)

  baseline, end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months), follow-up (after two school years, 21 months)

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Change in beverage consumption of school children (from baseline to post-intervention and follow-up)

  baseline, end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months), follow-up (after two school years, 21 months)

• Change in food consumption of school children (from baseline to post-intervention and follow-up)

  baseline, end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months), follow-up (after two school years, 21 months)

• Change in breakfast consumption of school children (from baseline to post-intervention and follow-up)

  baseline, end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months), follow-up (after two school years, 21 months)

• Parameters of process evaluation (implementation dose)

  end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months)

• Parameters of process evaluation (implementation fidelity)

  end of intervention (after one school year, 9 months)

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group "Wasserschulen"

EXPERIMENTAL

Schools receive refillable drinking bottles for all school children and drying racks for each classroom. Schools receive special project educational material and informational material and one training session for teachers. The intervention will be implemented during one school year (2018/2019), but schools can use the material and bottles also after ending of the intervention period.

Behavioral: Wasserschulen

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention (usual education). Schools do not receive any project material. Schools got the information that they are part of a study on drinking and eating habits of third grade elementary school children.

Interventions

Wasserschulen BEHAVIORAL

Schools receive following materials and trainings: * one training sessions for teachers (at the beginning of the intervention) * refillable water bottles for each school student * drying rack for water bottles for each classroom * educational material for each class and for school events * informational material for parents

Intervention group "Wasserschulen"

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• elementary school in Niederösterreich (Upper Austria, a province of Austria)
• no juice provided with the school milk programme
• For the school children taking part in the survey:
• school children in third class of elementary school (at baseline)
• written declaration of consent by a parent/guardian

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Danube University Krems: lead
• Lower Austrian Health and Social Fund: collaborator
• Medical University of Vienna: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Lower Austrian Health and Social Fund

Sankt Pölten, 3100, Austria

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Griebler U, Titscher V, Weber M, Affengruber L. Evaluation of the 'H2NOE Water Schools' programme to promote water consumption in elementary schoolchildren: a non-randomised controlled cluster trial. Public Health Nutr. 2022 Jan;25(1):159-169. doi: 10.1017/S1368980021003438. Epub 2021 Aug 13.

  PMID: 34384513 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Drinking Behavior; Food Preferences

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Feeding Behavior

Study Officials

• Ursula Griebler, PhD, MPH

  Danube University Krems

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: Participants in the control group are not aware that they serve as control group.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Model Details: Intervention versus no intervention

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 19, 2019
• First Posted: February 25, 2019
• Study Start: June 7, 2018
• Primary Completion: July 13, 2020
• Study Completion: July 13, 2020
• Last Updated: September 13, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

AU (1)