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Assessing and Amplifying Parent Support for Locally Sourced Produce in Barbados

NCT05611320 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2022-11-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study seeks to promote consumption of locally sourced foods among school going children in Barbados. The study targets parents/care givers of school going children aged 18 years and below. Parents have been chosen as the target for this study because they shape the meals that their children consume through two primary routes; a) direct purchase of meal ingredients and b) political influence on school based meal programs. The study seeks to achieve this by first identifying the behavioral obstacles for consumption of locally sourced produce through exploratory and desk research and then designing interventions to address the obstacles.

Conditions

  • Nutrition Poor

Interventions

OTHER

Awareness campaign - communications campaign

How this concept would work in a full deployment: 1. Develop a set of images of healthy meals with local produce. The meals will be child-friendly and easy to prepare. 2. Develop educational content to accompany the images, on the importance of shopping for local produce, and seasonality (when to use what). Optionally work with farmer associations to inform the seasonal options. 3. Package the materials as posters and/or digital infographics. The materials include a link to the campaign website, which has more information about nutrition, local produce and recipes to inspire parents. 4. Partner with government agencies (e.g., ministry of health) to deploy the posters in local supermarkets, and in newspapers and on social media. Make the materials available to the farmer associations for their dissemination as well.

OTHER

Online shopping

Provide information on an online shopping site where the parents can shop for local produce online, and have it delivered to their homes, to disrupt their current ingredient-selection habits. Working backwards from a potential broad implementation, here we identify key risks along the path, and examine how to use the pilot to de-risk those areas.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Inter-American Development Bank

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-30
Primary Completion
2023-05-30
Completion
2023-05-30

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