Pilot Evaluation of Youth Chef Academy (YCA)

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child; Dietary Modification

Treatments: Behavioral: Youth Chef Academy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02463149

11.336 (Other Identifier)

PRJ49IH

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project examined the effectiveness of Youth Chef Academy (YCA), a classroom-based experiential culinary and nutrition literacy curriculum for middle-school students. The primary study hypothesis was that students assigned to YCA would demonstrate greater improvement in F/V and whole grain consumption compared to students in the control group. Eight classrooms in eight public K-8 schools participated in the project. Classrooms were assigned to intervention or control condition in a non-randomized manner. YCA was delivered by project staff to all of the students in the four intervention classrooms. Students completed a survey to assess primary and secondary outcomes at baseline, six-week curriculum completion, and at twelve-week curriculum completion (YCA extended twelve-week curriculum cohort).

Enrollment: 248 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Student in intervention or control classroom

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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248 participants in 2 patient groups

Youth Chef Academy

Experimental group

Description:

Receives intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Youth Chef Academy

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual classroom curriculum