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Super Chef - an Online Program Promoting the Mediterranean Dietary Pattern to Lower Income Families

NCT05863559 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 88

Last updated 2025-07-20

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Summary

Given the limited effectiveness of single food group-targeted interventions to enhance child nutrition, a key component of current and future health, innovative approaches are needed. Healthy dietary patterns are emerging as an important intervention target, and the Mediterranean Dietary pattern has been particularly effective at reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors, a leading cause of death in the US. Since parents are the gatekeepers of the home food environment and influence child intake through food-related parenting practices, children enjoy cooking with parents, and home food preparation is associated with more healthful dietary intake. Therefore, the investigators propose to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an online cooking intervention for parent-child dyads living in low-income households that promotes the Mediterranean dietary pattern and healthful food-related parenting practices.

Conditions

  • Feasibility
  • Diet, Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Super Chef: Family Fun in the Kitchen!

Two-phase intervention: in the online phase, a professional chef will demonstrate cooking strategies to help families modify existing recipes to be consistent with the Mediterranean Dietary pattern. Effective food parenting practices will also be integrated into the intervention. The intervention is guided by theory - Family Systems, Social Cognitive, and Self Determination - and gamification techniques. At the end of the online phase, dyads will set a goal to use the cooking strategy and make a plan to facilitate goal attainment. In the home phase, the dyad will work together to use the plan to meet the goal. Dyads can also participate in bonus activities. Prior to viewing the next session, dyads will report whether the goal was attained and any bonus activities completed. Collectively, this will determine level of Super Chef status the family achieves at the end of the program (Session 4).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh

    collaborator OTHER

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deborah Thompson, PhD · USDA/ARS CNRC, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-30
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2026-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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