Impact Study of Minnesota SNAP-Ed Health and Nutrition Education Programs

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies! delayed; Behavioral: Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies!

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01918020

1206S15445

Details and patient eligibility

About

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-Ed) is a national initiative with the goal of improving the health and wellbeing of low income families. University of Minnesota Extension every year offers nearly 4000 educational events, serving approximately 70,000 Minnesotans through the program. Extension is conducting an impact study to determine program effectiveness and assess sustained changes of participants and their families that can be directly attributed to programming on a larger and methodically sound scale.

Enrollment: 796 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 9 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Third grade elementary students
• Schools that are eligible for SNAP ED funding (have more than 50% students received free/reduced lunch)

Exclusion criteria

• Other grade elementary students
• Schools that are not eligible for SNAP ED funding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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796 participants in 2 patient groups

Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies!

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive nutrition education to learn about fruits and vegetables and physical activities right from the start of the experiment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies!

Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies! delayed

Other group

Description:

This group will only receive nutrition education about 4 months after the experiment starts.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Go Wild with Fruits and Veggies! delayed