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

NCT01821144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 832

Last updated 2023-01-10

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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.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteer

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Salt reduction

Salt reduction

OTHER

Control

No salt awareness education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The George Institute for Global Health, China

    collaborator OTHER

  • Peking University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Changzhi Medical College

    collaborator OTHER

  • Queen Mary University of London

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Feng He, PhD · Queen Mary University of London

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-02-28

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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