Enhancing Knowledge Translation in Nutrition Through a Healthy Eating Blog

Laval University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy eating blog

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03156803

2014-257 A3/15-01-2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of an evidence-based healthy eating blog on dietary behaviors of mothers

Full description

Mothers randomised to the experimental group were exposed to one weekly blog post for 6 months. Blog posts focus on the improvement of dairy products as well as vegetables and fruits consumption targeting five food skills categories: (1) knowledge about food, nutrition and cooking; (2) planning of healthy meals, and for including children to develop their food skills; (3) conceptualizing outcomes; (4) mechanical techniques for food preparation; (5) perception of food characteristics. Each post included a step-by-step recipe developed by the research team and featuring dairy products, vegetables and fruits. Recipes were described textually and also using pictures. Twenty-six posts were created over the six-month intervention. Participants randomised to the control group were not exposed to the healthy eating blog. The primary outcome is the daily intakes of dairy products, vegetables and fruits. The secondary outcomes are mothers' food skills and body weight.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Have Internet access, have at least one child aged two to twelve years, are mostly in charge of the planning and preparation of family meals, consume less than two servings a day of dairy products and/or less than seven servings a day of vegetables and fruits.

Exclusion criteria

• Take medications that could affect food intake, have eating disorders, are dieting, are currently pregnant or lactating.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthy eating blog (HEB)

Experimental group

Description:

For a 6-month period, mothers randomised to the HEB group will receive a weekly blog post discussing various positive aspects of healthy eating and presenting recipes and strategies to increase dairy product intakes and vegetable and fruit intakes. The posts will be developed with an emphasis of food skills acquisition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy eating blog

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Mothers randomised to the control group will not have access to the healthy eating blog.