Community Gardens Participation in Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles in Urban Settings: the JArDinS Study

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sustainable Lifestyles

Treatments: Behavioral: Questionnaire; Behavioral: Food diary supply; Behavioral: Actigraph

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03694782

JArDinS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The JArDinS study is a quasi-experimental research that aimed at assessing the impact of community garden participation (a natural experiment) in the adoption of more sustainable lifestyles.

Full description

The JArDinS study is part of the SURFOOD-Foodscapes project evaluating the relationships between urban foodscape and food styles in Montpellier Metropole (France).

JArDinS consists of a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research and includes an experimental group of new gardeners starting gardening in a community garden in Montpellier and a control group comprising participants from a survey on food behaviors undertaken as part of SURFOOD-Foodscapes project. Participants will be surveyed at enrollment and 12 months later.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• starting gardening in a community garden (for experimental group)
• no experience in community gardening (for control group)
• willingness to be involved in the study through one year
• age above 18 years
• ability to read in French and live in the city of Montpellier.

Exclusion criteria

• past experience of at least one household member in community gardening
• never doing grocery shopping for home

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Description:

Gardeners starting gardening in a community garden in Montpellier (France)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Questionnaire

Behavioral: Actigraph

Behavioral: Food diary supply

Control Group

Description:

Volunteers living in the same neighborhoods but with no experience in community gardening.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Questionnaire

Behavioral: Actigraph

Behavioral: Food diary supply