Increasing Adoption of Fruits and Vegetables Into Family Diet

Diet, Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Providing Choices for Fruits and Vegetable Access on Child Diet

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04827654
• Other study ID #: 00000566
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 31, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2021
• Source: University of Texas at Austin
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators are interested in maximizing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) in elementary school children by increasing the access to F&V by providing them in the home environment via direct delivery (F&V bag & recipes) and a gift card to purchase preferred choices. This also decreases barriers to trying F&V and switching to a more F&V-focused diet, e.g., access, cost, knowledge of what to do with fruits and vegetables by their families in household diet, and a period of time to try and get used to more F&V in the diet without worrying about access and cost.

We hypothesize that at the end of 4 weeks, children in families that were given access to a F&V produce box with associated recipes, a gift card to purchase preferred choices, and a cooking incentive kit, consumed significantly better diets as measured with a diet composite score compared with children in families who did not receive increased F&V access.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 68
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 4 Years to 11 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Families must be participants in the Boys and Girls "Club on the Go" program. They could sign up to become a participant while we are recruiting.

2. Caregiver must be able to come to the same "Club on the Go" site every week.

3. At least one child in the family must be k-5 student.

4. Caregiver must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to answer assessments.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Reference child with any medical condition in which they have to follow a specific diet.

2. Caregiver cannot read and write in English or Spanish.

3. Reference child not living with caregiver for majority of time (75% or greater).

4. Families that do not meet the inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diet, Healthy

Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
• Weekly produce box and gift card
Weekly box of produce (5-10 lbs) and $10.00 gift card to a local grocery store to purchase preferred produce. If progress on self-goals completed, an additional $10.00 card provided, weekly, for 3 weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Booker T. Washington	Austin	Texas
United States	Chalmers Court	Austin	Texas
United States	Home Club	Austin	Texas
United States	Meadowbrook Elementary School	Austin	Texas
United States	NYOS Kramer	Austin	Texas
United States	Walnut Creek Elementary School	Austin	Texas
United States	Elgin High School	Elgin	Texas

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Texas at Austin	Boys and Girls Club of Austin

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (3)

Olsho LE, Klerman JA, Wilde PE, Bartlett S. Financial incentives increase fruit and vegetable intake among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants: a randomized controlled trial of the USDA Healthy Incentives Pilot. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Aug — View Citation

Seligman HK, Smith M, Rosenmoss S, Marshall MB, Waxman E. Comprehensive Diabetes Self-Management Support From Food Banks: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Public Health. 2018 Sep;108(9):1227-1234. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304528. Epub 2018 Jul 19. — View Citation

Sharma SV, Markham C, Chow J, Ranjit N, Pomeroy M, Raber M. Evaluating a school-based fruit and vegetable co-op in low-income children: A quasi-experimental study. Prev Med. 2016 Oct;91:8-17. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.07.022. Epub 2016 Jul 25. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) questionnaire elementary version	dietary recall measure for fruit and vegetables scale of 0-12 with higher scores equating to more vegetable consumption	24 hours