Increasing School Meal Participation

NCT06419218 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 75335
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 832
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to determine whether an online marketing campaign increases children's school meal participation. Parents whose children do not currently eat school meals frequently will be exposed to messages designed to encourage their children's increased participation in school meals.

Conditions

Nutrition, Healthy

Keywords

health; nutrition; children; parent perceptions; school lunch; school breakfast; food access

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Children's consumption of school lunches

  Parental report of the usual number of days per week their child ate school lunch during the past month. Assessed with 1 item: "Thinking about the last month, how many days a week did your child usually eat school lunch?" This item will be scored on a 6-point scale from "0 days per week" (0) to "5 days per week" (5).

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.

• Children's consumption of school breakfasts

  Parental report of the usual number of days per week their child ate school breakfast during the past month. Assessed with 1 item: Thinking about the last month, how many days a week did your child usually eat school breakfast?" This item will be scored on a 6-point scale from "0 days per week" (0) to "5 days per week" (5).

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.

Secondary Outcomes (17)

• Noticing the school meal campaign

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.

• Number of school meals campaign topics recognized

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.

• Frequency of reading campaign messages

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.

• Social interactions about campaign

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.

• Social interactions about school meals

  Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.

Study Arms (2)

School meal messages

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will view messages focused on the benefits of children eating school meals, using text and images developed based on parent interviews. Participants will view a total of 10 messages.

Behavioral: School meal messages

Control (neutral) messages

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will view messages focused on the benefits of children reading. Messages will be matched in length to the experimental messages. Participants will view a total of 10 messages.

Behavioral: Control (neutral) messages

Interventions

School meal messages BEHAVIORAL

Messages focused on the benefits of children consuming school lunch and breakfast, using text and images developed based on parent interviews. Participants will view a total of 10 messages.

School meal messages

Control (neutral) messages BEHAVIORAL

Control messages approximately matched to the intervention messages on length and design, but discussing a neutral topic unrelated to school meals (reading). Participants will view a total of 10 messages.

Control (neutral) messages

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• years or older
• Parent of a child attending a public school in grades 1-5
• Resides in one of the following states: California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont
• Has internet access
• Has a Facebook account
• Child consumes 3 or fewer school lunches per week or 3 or fewer school breakfasts per week

You may not qualify if:

• Younger than 18 years old
• Does not have a child attending a public school in grades 1-5
• Resides out of one of the following states: California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont
• Does not have internet access
• Does not have a Facebook account
• Child consumes more than 3 school lunches per week and more than 3 school breakfasts per week

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Stanford University: lead
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Stanford School of Medicine

Palo Alto, California, 94304, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Anna Grummon, PhD

  Assistant Professor

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: The investigator and data analyst will not be aware of participants' assignments.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 13, 2024
• First Posted: May 17, 2024
• Study Start: September 19, 2024
• Primary Completion: December 20, 2024
• Study Completion: December 20, 2024
• Last Updated: January 31, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: We plan to post de-identified raw data from the surveys to a public repository upon publication of papers arising from the study.
• Access Criteria: These materials will be posted publicly; researchers will be free to download them.

Locations

US (1)