A School-based Education Programme to Reduce Salt Intake in Children and Their Families

Healthy Volunteer Clinical Trial

— School-EduSalt  

Official title:

A School-based Education Programme to Reduce Salt Intake in Children and Their Families (School-EduSalt)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01821144
• Other study ID #: 008602 QM
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2013
• Est. completion date: February 2014

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Queen Mary University of London
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is to test whether an education programme targeted at school children can lower salt intake in children and their families. In this study, the investigators will educate children on how to reduce salt intake, and the investigators will empower children by asking them to deliver the salt reduction message home to their families, particularly children need to persuade the person who does the cooking for the whole family to cut down on the amount of salt used during food preparations. The study will involve children aged about 11 years, and their parents and grandparents in Northern China.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 832
• Est. completion date: February 2014
• Est. primary completion date: February 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 9 Years and older

Eligibility

Children

Inclusion Criteria:

• All children in Grade 5 of primary schools (age about 11 years) are eligible for the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who do not have lunch or dinner at their own home will be excluded.

Adult family members:

Inclusion Criteria:

• For each participating child, we will recruit two adult family members. All adult family members who share the same meals with the child are eligible for the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• If more than two adults in one family agree to take part in the study, we will select two of them (i.e. one male and one female) in the order of grandparents, parents, uncles and aunties.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Volunteer

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Salt reduction
Salt reduction

Other:
• Control
No salt awareness education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Changzhi Medical College	Changzhi	Shanxi

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Queen Mary University of London	Changzhi Medical College, Peking University, The George Institute for Global Health, China

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	24-h urinary sodium	Difference between the intervention and control group in the change in 24-h urinary sodium from baseline to the end of follow-up for children and for adults	4.5 month
Secondary	Blood pressure	Difference between the intervention and control group in the change in blood pressure from baseline to the end of follow-up for children and for adults.	4.5 month