Summer Harvest Adventure: A Garden-based Obesity Prevention Program for Children Residing in Low-resource Communities (SHA)

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Summer Harvest Adventure; Behavioral: My Summer Plate (MSP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05367674

2016-11075

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to implement and test the efficacy of the "Summer Harvest Adventure," a comprehensive garden-based behavioral, social, and environmental intervention for children (ages 8-11 years) residing in low-resource communities.

Full description

The investigators will conduct a 2-arm randomized controlled trial designed to determine the efficacy of a multifaceted obesity prevention and lifestyle intervention in low-resource children and parent/adult caregiver (PAC) called "Summer Harvest Adventure." A total of 240 children (ages 8-11 years) will be randomized to the garden-based intervention (SHA) or an enhanced control group (MSP). Summer Harvest Adventure includes: 1) remote and group coaching using a focused motivational interviewing approach; 2) weekly fruit, vegetable, and herb harvesting to increase summer food access; and 3) group education for children and their families in a social setting. Assessments for both groups will be collected at orientation held one week prior to the intervention (week 0), and immediately following the completion of the intervention (week 10) by trained personnel that are blinded to participants' treatment arm assignment.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children 8-11 years of age (as of June 1) from assenting and consenting families
• English-speaking families that agree to participate; 3) residents of SNAP-eligible communities in Franklin County, Ohio.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to functionally participate in harvesting; accommodations can be implemented in the future for children with special needs
• Communication difficulties (e.g. severe developmental delay)
• Lack of transportation to weekly classes or harvesting activities
• Non-English speakers; because coaching and classroom-based education are all conducted in English, we will of necessity restrict to English-speakers only during this phase

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Summer Harvest Adventure (SHA)

Experimental group

Description:

Remote nutrition counseling, weekly produce harvesting, group nutrition education

Treatment:

Behavioral: Summer Harvest Adventure

My Summer Plate (MSP)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nutrition education packet

Treatment:

Behavioral: My Summer Plate (MSP)