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Development and Implementation of Food Literacy Workshops in the Community

NCT03872752 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 260

Last updated 2025-12-16

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Summary

Nutritional factors are responsible for 10% of the global health burden. In Israel, 31% of Jewish women and 52% of Arab women are obese. It is predicted that this generation will see increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) and decreased life expectancy. Sustained lifestyle changes including small changes in nutrition behavior, can substantially reduce the risk of CVD.

Eating habits are affected by different abilities, circumstances, and skill sets, however, most nutrition programs focus on nutrition facts, and less on skills that can help translate knowledge to positive health behaviors and health outcomes. In the last decade a new field has emerged, Food literacy (FL), which acknowledges the importance of addressing skills such as nutrition knowledge, competencies, self-efficacy, literacy and health literacy, so as to enable positive change in nutrition behaviors. Food literacy, in summary, is the capability to make healthy food choices in different contexts, settings and situations.

The proposed program seeks to improve nutrition behaviors in disadvantaged communities via a train-the-trainers program, that will provide community leaders with the tools necessary to disseminate FL skills through the framework of existing community social-structures.

Conditions

  • Lifestyle Risk Reduction
  • Health Behavior
  • Food Habits

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

FL lay leader training and workshop implementation

Intervention components will include a training course for community lay leaders, enabling them to acquire the skills to lead food literacy workshops. This includes raising their knowledge about nutrition recommendations and food labels, raisin self efficacy, and improving nutrition related organization and preparation skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hadassah Medical Organization

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Donna R Zwas, MD, MPH · Hadassah Medical Organization

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-15
Primary Completion
2023-07-01
Completion
2023-07-01

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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