Snack It Up for Parents: Interventions to Improve Children's Snacks

Snacking Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Snack It Up for Parents: Interventions to Improve Children's Snacks

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03678779
• Other study ID #: 1601028
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2016
• Est. completion date: August 2016

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: Tufts University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Influencing children's snacking habits has the potential to reap long-term rewards, yet few studies have focused on helping parents to provide healthier snacks for their children. The study tested the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of parent interventions to improve snacks for children ages 8-12.

Description:

Objective. Influencing children's snacking habits has the potential to reap long-term rewards, yet few studies have focused on helping parents to provide healthier snacks for their children. The study tested the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of parent interventions to improve snacks for children ages 8-12.

Methods. Parents of children enrolled in an out-of-school-time soccer program in a low-income school district (n 16) were recruited. A comparison of 3 randomly-assigned interventions was conducted: 4 parents received grocery store gift cards (Incentive); 7 received nutrition education videos with tip sheets (Education); and 5 received both (Combined). The interventions were assessed qualitatively by interviewing parents and quantitatively to determine motivation (psychosocial survey) and children's snack quality (web-based 24-hour recall).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 17
• Est. completion date: August 2016
• Est. primary completion date: August 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 year and older

• Must have a child enrolled in one of three designated soccer sites of the study and must agree to let their child take the online 24 hour recall (ASA24)

• Must have a child 7 years or older participating on a soccer team

• Must frequently buy groceries from Stop & Shop (only if recruited for a study arms that involves grocery coupons)

• Must be literate in English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Failure to provide informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Snacking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Incentive
$5 grocery gift card
• Education
Video-based brief nutrition education
• Combined
Both Incentive and Education interventions received

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tufts University	Newman's Own Foundation, Soccer4Success/America SCORES, Stop & Shop Supermarket Company

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	snack quality by on-line 24-hour dietary recall (ASA24)	grams of sugar, fruits and vegetables as snacks	6 weeks
Secondary	Intrinsic motivation by adapted Intrinsic Motivation Inventory	Parent intrinsic motivation for providing fruit and vegetable snacks; questions adapted from the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (McAuley, E., Duncan, T., & Tammen, V. (1989). Psychometric properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory in a competitive sport setting: A confirmatory factor analysis. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 60(1), 48-58).	6 weeks
Secondary	Decisional balance by the Mainvil Decisional Balance Scale	Parent pros and cons for providing fruit and vegetable snacks to children; questions adapted from Mainvil decisional balance scale (Mainvil, L. A., Lawson, R., Horwath, C. C., McKenzie, J. E., & Hart, I. (2010). Validated scales to assess adult decisional balance to eat more fruits and vegetables. Appetite, 55(3), 454-465. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.08.007)	6 weeks
Secondary	Self-efficacy by questions adapted NCI Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey	Parent self-efficacy for providing fruit and vegetable snacks; questions adapted from the self-efficacy questions in the National Cancer Institute's Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey (Erinosho, T. O., Pinard, C. A., Nebeling, L. C., Moser, R. P., Shaikh, A. R., Resnicow, K., . . . Yaroch, A. L. (2015). Development and implementation of the National Cancer Institute's Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey to assess correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in adults. PLoS One, 10(2), e0115017. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115017)	6 weeks