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Time for Lunch: The Impact of Lunch Time Constraints on Child Eating Behaviors

NCT04191291 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2022-07-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Recent peer-reviewed observational evidence suggests that school children receive anywhere from 10-33 minutes of seated lunch time and that students with less time to eat discard higher amounts of milk, entrée (i.e. protein items), grains, and vegetables. This waste is a missed nutritional and food security opportunity and also negatively impacts the environment. The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact that lunch time constraints have on child food selection, consumption and waste behaviors using a crossover trial design, where the duration of seated lunch times are randomly allocated to be either 10 minutes or 20 minutes each day.

Conditions

  • Time Constraints During School Meals

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Lunch period length

We are randomly allocating a 10 minute or 20 period of seated lunch time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-03
Primary Completion
2019-06-28
Completion
2019-06-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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