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Healthy Hydration Pilot in Elementary Schools

NCT06132763 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 563

Last updated 2025-10-31

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Summary

This study will pilot a school-based stakeholder-informed hydration intervention and examine its feasibility and preliminary efficacy.

Conditions

  • Hydration
  • Dental Caries
  • Body Mass Index

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Hydration Intervention

Teacher \& student ambassadors: serve as hydration role models, identify "Hydration Heroes", monitor filter lights on hydration stations, \& update the water meter visual. Kick-off event: event to kick off the hydration intervention to include water bottles distribution with a station to personalize, experiential activities, and information about the intervention. Social marketing: student-developed marketing campaign "Make water your superpower" will be placed in high-traffic areas of the school. Hydration Headquarters will be located in the lunchroom displaying a water meter illustrating bottle refills from the school's hydration stations. Behavioral reinforcement: on random days, students drinking water and/or with a water bottle will receive small incentives. Education and outreach: Hydration Tip Sheets, hydration signage in classrooms, and hydration trivia on hydration stations. Teachers will deliver 1 hydration lesson per month that align with Standards of Learning.

OTHER

Control - Assessments Only

Assessments only

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Melanie Bean · Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-09
Primary Completion
2024-04-22
Completion
2024-05-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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