Cook Like A Boss Online: A Virtual One-week 'Camp-style' Cooking Intervention (CLAB)

Queen's University Belfast

Status: Completed

Conditions: Perceptions, Self

Treatments: Behavioral: Cook Like A Boss Online - virtual week long cooking camp

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05395234

MHLS 21_24

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cook Like A Boss Online is a public engaging virtual cooking camp styled intervention evaluating an adapted theory-driven co-created intervention designed to improve perceived cooking competence.

Full description

Cook Like A Boss Online is a virtual cooking camp styled intervention, providing engaging virtual cooking activities for children to take part in safely from their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online intervention is adapted from the original theory-driven, age-appropriate and co-created 'Cook Like A Boss' intervention (Dean et al., 2022), into daily cooking videos emailed to parents for children to cook along to, aiming to improve perceived cooking competence and wellbeing. Children aged 9-12 years will be recruited from across the island of Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) to take part in the intervention. Due to the uncertainty of the pandemic and the need for the intervention to run five days consecutively (i.e. over a school holiday), it is deemed unethical to have a delayed intervention control group and all children will be provided the opportunity to take part in the intervention. Study outcomes include perceived cooking competence, perceived motor competence, wellbeing and process evaluation measures and will be collected at baseline and post intervention.

Enrollment: 259 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Within age range
• In primary school (before exposure to Home Economics)

Exclusion criteria

• Outside age range
• In secondary school

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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259 participants in 1 patient group

Cook Like A Boss Online - virtual week long cooking camp

Experimental group

Description:

The original Cook Like A Boss camp style intervention, was based on the Cook-Ed Model (Asher et al., 2020) and underpinned by SLT and ELT (Bandura \& McClelland, 1977; Kolb, 1984). The content was developed to ensure it was age-appropriate in line with the guidelines (Dean et al., 2021a) and included co-creation. The camp was designed to introduce the children to a range of food and skills and to nurture an initial interest in cooking. The adapted online version of the camp included five daily videos of the original chef performing the recipes. Minor adaptions included the removal of cooking pasta from scratch due to equipment concerns, reordering the days, and chef suggestions around alternative equipment/ingredients to use. The five daily videos were: 1) Introduction \& flatbreads; 2) Chicken Chowder; 3) Baking day; 4) Chilli non Carne; 5) Honey Chilli Chicken

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cook Like A Boss Online - virtual week long cooking camp