Brighter Bites - Access, Continuity and Education With Fruits and Vegetables

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: CATCH; Behavioral: Brighter Bites

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02726529

HSC-SPH-12-0480

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the research is to find out how well a new nutrition program works for elementary school students and their families. This program is called Brighter Bites. Brighter Bites is a school-based program that teaches students and their parents about the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables and how to prepare them in tasty, healthy ways. This project is being carried out at six elementary schools in Houston, Texas. Up to 600 first grade students and their parents/guardians are expected to join this project.

Enrollment: 710 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 7 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child is in enrolled in the 1st grade in the participating school

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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710 participants in 2 patient groups

Brighter Bites

Experimental group

Description:

Children of families in the intervention group will also receive the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) school-based curriculum in addition to families receiving fresh fruits and vegetables to take home from school once a week along with nutrition education for 8 weeks in Fall and 8 weeks in Spring semesters of the school year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CATCH

Behavioral: Brighter Bites

Comparison

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: CATCH