New Foods Take Time, a Curriculum Designed to Promote Tasting and Liking of Fruits and Vegetables

NCT04129372 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00013066
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The overall objective of this project is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "New Foods Take Time" Intervention in Head Start preschool classrooms.

Conditions

Eating Behavior

Keywords

fruits; vegetables; food neophobia; preschool; children

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Change in number of foods tasted

  Children will be presented with small portions of familiar and novel fruits and vegetables and be asked if they would like to taste them

  Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention

• Change in liking of study foods

  For foods that children agree to taste, they will be asked to rate their liking of them on a three point likert-type scale ("Yummy", "Just ok", or "Yucky")

  Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention

• Change in self-competence to try new foods

  Children will be presented with a series pairs of drawings with descriptions (e.g., "This boy likes to try new foods" and "This boy does not like to try new foods") and asked to select which is most like them.

  Pre intervention and at conclusion of 5 week intervention

• Teacher acceptability of intervention

  Teachers will complete a questionnaire with scaled and open-ended questions about the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention

  At conclusion of 5 week intervention

Other Outcomes (4)

• Child body mass index

  Measured once at any time between enrollment and conclusion of 5 week intervention

• Parent report of child neophobia

  Measured once at any time between enrollment and conclusion of 5 week intervention

• Parent report of food insecurity

  Measured once at any time between enrollment and conclusion of 5 week intervention

Study Arms (1)

New Foods Take Time

EXPERIMENTAL

Head Start classrooms will receive "New Foods Take Time", a series of five interactive weekly lessons designed to promote children's willingness to try new foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Lessons will be delivered by nutrition educations. Children will also receive three tastings per week of the new foods discussed during the lessons.

Behavioral: New Foods Take Time

Interventions

New Foods Take Time BEHAVIORAL

New Foods Take Time is a series of 5 classroom lessons focused on increasing children's willingness to try fruits and vegetables.

New Foods Take Time

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 2 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Enrolled in a Head Start preschool center
• Between the ages of 2 and 5 years old

You may not qualify if:

• Food allergy or restriction to foods in the tastings
• Parent or primary caregiver of a child enrolled in the study
• Age 18 years or older
• English speaking
• None
• Actively employed as an early childhood education provider in the Head Start classroom where the intervention is delivered
• Age 18 years or older
• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Penn State University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior; Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Behavior; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Jennifer Savage, PhD

  Penn State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Model Details: Classrooms will receive "New Foods Take Time", a series of 5 interactive lessons. Children, parents, and teachers will participate in the research

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 9, 2019
• First Posted: October 16, 2019
• Study Start: October 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: November 25, 2019
• Study Completion: November 25, 2019
• Last Updated: September 14, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, CSR, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: Data will be available after publication of primary outcomes
• Access Criteria: Requests for access to the data will be reviewed and approved at the principal investigator's discretion.

Locations

US (1)