Effects of School Gardens on Children's Diet, Nutritional Knowledge, Etc. (HGHY)

Cornell University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Habits

Treatments: Behavioral: garden intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02166034

CN-CGP-11-0047

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether school gardens influence children's dietary intake, nutritional knowledge, and other outcomes.

Full description

Schools in New York, Washington State, Iowa, and Arkansas were randomly assigned to receive school gardens and associated curriculum or to serve on the wait list control group that received gardens and curriculum at the end of the 2-year study. Baseline data were collected in Fall 2011. Garden interventions began in Spring 2012. Follow-up data were collected at 6, 12, 18 months following baseline data collection.

Enrollment: 3,531 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Schools had at least 50% of enrolled children qualifying for free + reduced price meals (FRPM)
• Schools did not already have a school garden.

Exclusion criteria

none.

Trial design

3,531 participants in 2 patient groups

garden intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Schools assigned to the garden intervention receive raised bed garden kits and access to a toolkit of garden-based curriculum

Treatment:

Behavioral: garden intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Wait-list control (no garden intervention + lessons) until end of the study.