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Sandhills Community Kitchen Evaluation: Using the Veggie Meter

NCT05494814 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2022-12-12

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Summary

This clinical trial will evaluate the development, implementation, and impact of a central kitchen preparing and serving meals to child care centers in rural Harnett County, North Carolina. The goals of the kitchen are to improve meal quality, reduce workload on child care providers, create a sustainable business model, and provide a source of community economic development. Our evaluation of the Sandhills Central Community Kitchen is important to better understand how this model can be replicated to serve rural communities. We will recruit 20 child care centers (10 intervention and 10 as a control group); we estimate that each child care center will serve 40 children. We will collect baseline data at the beginning of the project from all 20 centers, and will repeat data collection at the end of the project to assess changes. Data will be collected through parent surveys, surveys and interviews with child care center directors, surveys and focus groups with teachers, interviews with the church pastor and community leaders where the kitchen is based, surveys of kitchen staff, nutritional analysis of menu data, collection and analysis of food costs, and through use of the "Veggie Meter" (a non-invasive instrument that assesses changes in intake of fruits and vegetables by measuring skin carotenoids) with child care center children and staff. Our goal is to document the impacts of central kitchens in terms of nutritional and economic benefits in order to create a replicable model.

Conditions

  • Diet, Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

Child Care Centers Served Meals Prepared by Central Kitchen

The child care centers who are served by the central kitchen will receive meals that include locally sourced fresh fruits and vegetables to serve their staff and children.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Duke University

    collaborator OTHER

  • North Carolina State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dara Bloom, PhD · North Carolina State University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-01
Primary Completion
2026-01-01
Completion
2026-01-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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