Mind the Gap! A Randomized Comparison Trial Examining the Impact of a Family-based Cooking Workshop on Vegetable Consumption, Self-efficacy and Willingness to Try of Children and Their Parents
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interventional
65
1 country
1
Study Start
January 2012
Actual (reported)Primary Completion
December 2012
Actual (reported)Study Completion
January 2013
Actual (reported)Increasing fruit and vegetable intake is important to health but children's vegetable intake remains low. In younger age groups parents act as gatekeepers by providing access, availability, persuasion and modelling. This study aimed to enhance parent vegetable serving behaviour and child vegetable intake through an 8-week social cognitive theory-based family cooking program.
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January 2013
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January 2012
Actual (reported)December 2012
Actual (reported)January 2013
Actual (reported)August 12, 2019
Actual (reported)August 14, 2019
Actual (reported)Parent Food Serving Frequency
The scale included nine items assessing fruit and vegetable servings including potatoes and 100% fruit juice. Responses were on a 9 point likert scale ranging from 0 which represented never to 9 which represented serving vegetables more than 5 times/per day. For the entire scale, a conversion factor was used to transform responses into average daily servings for each item. To determine parental fruit and vegetable serving behavior, serving habits at breakfast, lunch and dinner for both fruits and vegetables were summed together to provide a score for overall number of servings served. This was also split into the specific number of fruits or vegetables served.
7 days
Child Food Frequency Questionnaire
A Food Frequency Questionnaire for children was used to measure typical weekly intake of fruit and vegetables including two items that addressed fried and white potato intake and one item that addressed 100% juice consumption. The scale was adapted from the US national cancer institute quick scan of fruit and vegetable and validated by Baranowski and colleagues \[41\]. The questionnaire consisted of nine items formatted as a 9 point likert scale whereby 0 represented never consumed and 9 represented consuming vegetables more than five times a day. A conversion factor was used to transform responses into average daily servings for each item, thus higher scores reflected the food choice being eaten more often on a daily basis. Similarly, assessing fruit and vegetable intake was determined by tallying the number of servings consumed across breakfast, lunch and dinner for both fruit and vegetables collectively and independently.
7 days
Cooking confidence (Parent and Child)
7 days
Outcome Expectations (Parent and Child)
7 days
Exposure, Food Neophobia and Tast Preference (Parent and Child)
7 days
Over the 8-week project, families were asked to try eight different vegetable recipes from a choice of 12. All family members could participate in the home activities as the families wished. Families were also asked to complete a weekly recipe cooking tracking sheet.
The 8-week cooking workshop condition incorporated all of the home activities previously described, however, this cohort also participated in two, two-hour cooking workshops held at a local cooking school.
The primary focus of the home activity program was based on collaborative parent-child cooking activities which the families undertook themselves at home. There were two key tasks: the first was to add one extra vegetable to the evening meal each day, the second was to select, prepare and cook one recipe from the cook book each week.
The main purpose of these workshops was to provide hands-on successful food preparation and cooking experiences for the families and several opportunities to taste new vegetable-based recipes as well as promoting knowledge of cost and healthy eating. Children and their parents were then encouraged to take whatever was learned and apply it at home.
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, V8W2Y2, Canada
Patti-Jean Naylor, PhD
University of Victoria
65 participants (actual enrollment reported by the registry).
First Submitted
August 12, 2019
First Posted
August 14, 2019
Study Start
January 2012
Actual (reported)Offering Free Fruits and Vegetables to Men at Risk of Poverty
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Primary Completion
December 2012
Actual (reported)Study Completion
January 2013
Actual (reported)Last Updated
August 14, 2019
Record last verified: 2019-08
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