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The GREEN Project Lunch Box Study

NCT01573845 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 979

Last updated 2015-03-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The central hypothesis of The GREEN Project Lunch Box Study is that a school-based communication campaign that combines healthy eating and eco-friendly messages will improve the quality of foods that children bring from home to school more than a healthy eating campaign alone and compared to a control/delayed intervention condition at the end of one school year.

Conditions

  • Health Communication

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Eating + Eco-Friendly Campaign

Participants receive a 6-month school-based campaign that includes: * A 22-lesson classroom curriculum * Homework activities that involve the family * Monthly parent newsletters * A food shopping and packing guide for parents * Food demonstrations * A poster contest * School wide announcements

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Eating Campaign

Participants receive a 6-month school-based campaign that includes: * A 22-lesson classroom curriculum * Homework activities that involve the family * Monthly parent newsletters * A food shopping and packing guide for parents * Food demonstrations * A poster contest * School wide announcements

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Tufts University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeanne P Goldberg, PhD, RD · Tufts University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2013-07-31

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