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Psychoeducational Intervention Model to Improve Nutritional Status in Low Resource Settings

NCT02914002 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12400

Last updated 2018-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Comer en Familia is a psychoeducational intervention in nutrition aimed to improve nutritional status in families, particularly mothers and caregivers of children between the ages of 5 and 13 years and their children through providing healthy cooking lessons in their communities where the optimal preparation and use of local foods based on vegetables is promoted at the same time the importance of cooking at home and eating as a family is highlighted.

Conditions

  • Child Malnutrition
  • Child Overnutrition
  • Malnutrition in Children
  • Malnutrition, Child
  • Nutrition Disorders, Child
  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducational intervention

A mobile kitchen visits the 16 selected communities every 2 weeks for a period of 1 year. A 30 minute cooking lesson is given by a trained instructor, the recipes have been designed to be quick and easy to make, use local and inexpensive ingredients, contain mostly vegetables and have a good taste. During the lesson, healthy habit and cooking tips are mentioned as well as the importance of cooking at home and having family meals . A printed version of the recipe is given to every participant. Every session participants are encouraged to prepare the recipe. At the end of the lesson all the participants get to taste the meal and express their opinion.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • FEMSA Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Mexican Food Banks

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universidad de Monterrey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana Carla Cepeda-Lopez, PhD · Universidad de Monterrey

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-30
Primary Completion
2017-12-19
Completion
2018-03-01

Countries

  • Mexico

Study Locations

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