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Lunch is in the Bag: Helping Parents Increase Fruit, Vegetables, and Whole Grains in Preschool Sack Lunches

NCT01292434 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1266

Last updated 2020-11-10

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Summary

Lunch is in the Bag is an intervention designed to increase fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in sack lunches prepared for preschool children. Lunch is in the Bag includes 5 weeks of parent handouts, classroom activities related to topics in the handouts, parent and child activities to reinforce behavioral constructs, and a one week booster 22 weeks later.

The primary study hypothesis is that Lunch is in the Bag will increase fruit, vegetables, and whole grains in sack lunches. Additional hypotheses are that lunches at child care centers where the program is used will have higher dietary quality than centers without the program and that children at the centers where the program is used will have a smaller increase in body mass index than children at centers with the program.

The study will also look at the child's home environment and the childcare center. Hypotheses for this research question include

1. Children at centers with Lunch is in the Bag will have greater frequency of eating fruits, vegetables, and whole grains at home than those at centers without the program.
2. Compared to parents at centers without the program, parents of children at centers with Lunch is in the Bag will have

1. Greater knowledge, expected benefits, support, intentions, and belief in their ability for packing fruit, vegetables, and whole grain in their child's sack lunch daily.
2. Availability of fruit, vegetable, and whole grain in the home pantry.
3. Number of lunches with temperature in the safe range at time of service.

Conditions

  • Dietary Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Lunch is in the Bag behavioral intervention

Multi-component behavior-based activities, includes: parent handouts, teacher training, age-appropriate child classroom activities, parent/child activity stations

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas at Austin

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deanna M Hoelscher, PhD · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

  • Margaret E. Briley, PhD · University of Texas at Austin

  • Cindy R. Roberts-Gray, PhD · Third Coast Research & Development, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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