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Project Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the Nexus City for Food, Education, Trust and Health

NCT04277312 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1080

Last updated 2020-02-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Project Daire is a randomised-controlled factorial design trial working in partnership with primary schools and local food producers evaluating two interventions designed to improve primary school children's knowledge of and interest in food and where it comes from, with the ultimate aim of driving improvement in health, well-being and educational status.

Conditions

  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Engage

The Engage intervention was developed with input from primary school teachers and includes a range of age-appropriate educational activities related to food. Activities include videos, lesson plans, worksheets, games, talks/visits from experts, visits to industrial partners and other local food-related centres of interest and practical activities such as experiments. All 'Engage' material is mapped to the Northern Ireland School Curriculum. The 'Engage' intervention is structured into three broad topics: Farm to Fork; Pleasure on a Plate and Food Futures. Engage resources were provided to schools electronically and in hard copy and teachers delivered most of the content, with the exception of several sessions which were delivered by visiting scientists.

BEHAVIORAL

Nourish

The Nourish intervention is a school food environment intervention which included weekly healthy snack provision supplied by food industry partners, enhancement of canteen dining area (café style, tablecloths, centre pieces, bunting and menu boards, healthy eating posters), attendance at Tasting Days held in Higher Education Colleges (children were encouraged to try new foods provided by industry partners and received stamps on 'food passports' in return) and sensory educational and cookery activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Invest NI

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Queen's University, Belfast

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jayne Woodside, PhD · Queen's University, Belfast

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-07
Primary Completion
2019-06-27
Completion
2019-06-27

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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