Intervention to Promote Water Consumption in School Lunchrooms

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Water Consumption; Schools

Treatments: Other: Grab a Cup, Fill it Up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02280707

19475-105

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study, randomized, delivered, and analyzed at the school level, evaluated the effect of simple, structural changes to school lunch rooms to make drinking water easier for students during lunch time. Half of the schools received posters promoting drinking water and installed cup dispensers stocked with cups next to lunchroom water fountains, while the other half received no intervention. The intervention outcomes were average water consumption and the proportion of students in the lunchroom who opted to drink water, as well as the proportion of students with sugary drinks at lunch. No identifying information on individual children was collected.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: School in Boston Public School district in Boston, MA; had to have plumbed drinking water access in school cafeteria -

Exclusion Criteria: School had no plumbed drinking water access in cafeteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Grab a Cup, Fill it Up

Control

No Intervention group