A Randomized Comparison Trial Examining the Impact of a Family-based Cooking Workshop

University of Victoria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diet Habit

Treatments: Behavioral: Mind the Gap: Home Activity + cooking Workshop; Behavioral: Mind the Gap: Home Activity Only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04056052

UVic2012SCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a family unit consisting of at least one parent and one child
• parents aged between 25 and 55 years of age
• children aged between nine and 13 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

• ability to comprehend English
• Participation of both the parent and the child

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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65 participants in 2 patient groups

Home Activity Only

Sham Comparator group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind the Gap: Home Activity Only

Home Activity + cooking Workshop

Active Comparator group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind the Gap: Home Activity + cooking Workshop