Nutritional and Culinary Habits to Empower Families Towards Sustainability - a Multicentric Pilot Study

NCT05280652 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2021.124
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 29
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

Background: Different studies have shown that nutritional interventions can be effective in informing and educating the population about the need to follow a healthy diet to prevent obesity and other chronic diseases. However, sometimes this knowledge is difficult to apply in daily life, which is usually marked by lack of time and easy access to food alternatives that are not healthy but can be more comfortable. These difficulties may be greater in families today since the lack of time is greater and it is a greater challenge to get minors to consume a high amount (5 servings a day) of fruits and vegetables. Culinary medicine is an emerging discipline that combines nutrition and gastronomy to increase the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Objective: The main objective is to demonstrate whether a culinary-nutritional intervention in families reduces the risk of obesity and increases adherence to a healthy and sustainable diet. Methods: The present project will cover culinary medicine and home-cooking as innovative strategies to improve the eating habits of families through an intervention based on face-to-face nutricional-culinary workshops and online material, where apart from receiving nutritional education, they will be taught a series of culinary techniques (adapted to adults and children) so that they learn to cook in an easy, enjoyable and family-friendly way, with tools to eat healthier in a simple and quick way. The intervention will be carried out with 92 families (dyads 1 adult and 1 child) which will be randomized in a 1: 1: 2 ratio into three groups: group 1 (intervention with families) in which families will attend nutritional-culinary workshops with theoretical and practical information to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet; group 2 (intervention with parents) in which only parents will attend nutritional-culinary workshops with theoretical and practical information to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet; and group 3 (control) in which families will attend nutritional workshops with theoretical information to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet. UPDATED NOTE AFTER RECRUITMENT: Due to financial and recruitment issues, a total of 29 families were recruited.

Conditions

Family Research

Keywords

culinary medicine; home cooking; family-based

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Effect of the intervention on changes in body mass index (BMI)

  Weight will be measured with a Tanita RD-545 (Tanita Corp Tokyo Japan). Height will be measured to the nearest 0.1 cm using a portable stadiometer. Differences between intervention groups on changes on BMI between baseline and 10-months and baseline and 14-months follow up.

  At baseline, and 10 and 14 months follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Effect of the intervention on home cooking habits

  At baseline, and 10 and 14 months follow-up

• Effect of the intervention on the adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet)

  At baseline, and 10 and 14 months follow-up

• Home cooking attitudes and self-confidence on cooking at home with the cooking attitudes and self-confidence questionnaire

  At baseline, and 10 and 14 months follow-up

Study Arms (3)

Family intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Families (dyads parent and child) will attend culinary-nutritional workshops with theoretical and practical nutritional and culinary information (knowledge and skills to prepare healthy and easy menus) to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet.

Behavioral: Nutritional and culinary intervention

Parent-only intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Parents will attend culinary-nutritional workshops with theoretical and practical nutritional and culinary information (knowledge and skills to prepare healthy and easy menus) to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet.

Behavioral: Nutritional and culinary intervention

Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Families (dyads parent and child) will attend nutritional workshops with theoretical information to follow a sustainable Mediterranean diet.

Behavioral: Nutritional intervention

Interventions

Nutritional and culinary intervention BEHAVIORAL

Participants will attend 6 two-hours nutritional-culinary workshops between May 2022 and February 2023. All of the workshops will be held in a kitchen, and will be given in groups of 2 dyads or parents according to the intervention group. In addition, during the intervention families will be given access to a web page with nutrition and culinary education materials (infographics, videos).

Family intervention group; Parent-only intervention group

Nutritional intervention BEHAVIORAL

Participants will attend 6 1-hour nutritional workshops between May 2022 and February 2023. The workshops will be held in person, and will be given in groups of 10-12 families. In addition, during the intervention families will be given access to a web page with nutrition education materials (infographics, videos).

Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 9 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• The child must be between 9-14 years old.
• The child is at risk of obesity because it is over cut-offs of BMI according to their age or because it has a low level of adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern (an score ≤7 points in the Kidmed questionnaire).
• There is at least 1 obesity risk factor in the household: one or both progenitors has overweight or obesity; one of both progenitors has only primary studies; one or both progenitors are unskilled workers; the total household number is ≤3; the child birthweight was \>4 kg; biological mother smoked during pregnancy; biological mother's weight gain during pregnancy was greater than the cut-offs of weight according to her BMI before pregnancy; biological mother's BMI before pregnancy was ≥30 kg/m2; one or both progenitors has a low adherence to the Mediterranean diet (17 points Mediterranean diet score ≤8); or the score for the family nutrition and physical activity screening tool is ≤50.

You may not qualify if:

• The participant progenitor or child has any food allergies and intolerances incompatible with the Mediterranean diet (fruits, nuts).
• The participant progenitor or child follow a specific dietary pattern incompatible with the intervention.
• The participant progenitor or child has type 1 diabetes, severe diseases of the digestive system, kidney, cancer, other diseases that limit survival less than 1 year, or eating disorders.
• The family has not access to a PC, tablet or telephone with internet.
• The family has participated in cooking workshops in the past 3 years.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra: lead

Study Sites (2)

University of Navarra

Pamplona, Navarre, 31008, Spain

Location

Universidad de Alicante

Alicante, Spain

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Enright G, Allman-Farinelli M, Redfern J. Effectiveness of Family-Based Behavior Change Interventions on Obesity-Related Behavior Change in Children: A Realist Synthesis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 8;17(11):4099. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17114099.

  PMID: 32521815 BACKGROUND

• Smith JD, Montano Z, Dishion TJ, Shaw DS, Wilson MN. Preventing weight gain and obesity: indirect effects of the family check-up in early childhood. Prev Sci. 2015 Apr;16(3):408-19. doi: 10.1007/s11121-014-0505-z.

  PMID: 25263212 BACKGROUND

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 4, 2022
• First Posted: March 15, 2022
• Study Start: September 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: October 17, 2024
• Study Completion: October 17, 2024
• Last Updated: December 27, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-12

Locations

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