Food Literacy Intervention - is a "Train the Trainer" Approach Feasible and Effective?

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Lifestyle Risk Reduction; Food Habits; Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Lay-led FL workshops; Behavioral: Expert-led workshops

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06258733

FL-COST-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Food literacy (FL) is the capability to make healthy food choices in different contexts, settings and situations. Although eating habits are shaped by different circumstances and skills, most nutrition programs focus on nutrition knowledge alone. Addressing factors such as competencies, self-efficacy and social norms enables sustainable positive change in nutrition behaviour. This study will assess a lay leader-led FL workshop to Arab and Jewish women from disadvantaged communities in the Jerusalem region, utilizing a train-the-trainer approach, and will compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a lay-led FL intervention to an expert-led intervention.

Full description

Food literacy (FL) is the capability to make healthy food choices in different contexts, settings and situations. Although eating habits are shaped by different circumstances and skills, most nutrition programs focus on nutrition knowledge alone. Addressing factors such as competencies, self-efficacy and social norms enables sustainable positive change in nutrition behaviour. This study will assess a lay leader-led FL workshop to Arab and Jewish women from disadvantaged communities in the Jerusalem region, utilizing a train-the-trainer approach, and will compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a manualized FL intervention given by trained lay-leaders vs. the same workshop given by experts.

Enrollment: 480 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hebrew or Arabic literate women who are over 25 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Women who do not meet inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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480 participants in 2 patient groups

Lay-led FL workshops

Experimental group

Description:

Community lay leaders who underwent training in a manualized program will disseminate the workshop to women in their communities through engaging visual and game-based tools.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lay-led FL workshops

Expert-led FL workshops

Experimental group

Description:

Trained health experts will disseminate the same manualized program in community groups recruited by research staff to match lay-led groups.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Expert-led workshops