Nutrition Goes to School: a School-based Nutrition Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviour Among Adolescents

Summary

The goal of this cluster randomized controlled pilot trial is to assess the feasibility and effect of a school-based nutrition intervention program called "Nutrition Goes to School" (NGTS) in improving a healthy diet and physical activities as part of the prevention and management of obesity among adolescents in urban Indonesia. The main questions it aims to answer concern the feasibility of the NGTS multi-component school-based nutrition intervention model in selected secondary schools in an urban setting to inform the design of the future effectiveness study. Additionally, it aims to evaluate the effect of the school-based nutrition intervention in the healthy eating knowledge and behavior (fruit and vegetable consumption, energy-dense nutrient poor food, and sugary beverages consumption, as measured by food frequency questionnaire) and physical activities as well as its effect on nutrition status (body mass index, mid-upper arm circumference \[MUAC\] and waist circumference). The intervention components consist of nutrition education to school communities (teachers, management, students and parents), healthy school canteen, school garden, hygiene and sanitation promotion of the school environment and obesogenic environment control, and promotion of physical activities among students. Five secondary schools in Jakarta will be randomly assigned to receive the intervention for 6 months, and five other schools will serve as the control group.

Conditions

• Obesity, Adolescent

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Goes To School (NGTS) Program Intervention Package

The NGTS Program intervention package in this project consists of four components: 1. A comprehensive Nutrition Education to improve healthy eating, physical activity, and hygiene-sanitation practices. This is a weekly interactive and fun nutrition and health promotion with different kinds of activities. 2. Healthy School Canteen to improve the availability of healthy food in school. This is an effort to strengthen the school canteen referring to the 4 Pillars of a Healthy School Canteen, including School Commitment and Management, Human Resources, Facilities and Infrastructure, and Food Quality. 3. School Garden. This is a gardening activity as a form of school garden as a media for nutrition education, character building, and contribute to supply vegetables during cooking class sessions in school. 4. Entrepreneurship nutrition. Entrepreneurship nutrition aims to foster entrepreneurial potential and skills among school members in providing healthy food at school.

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Education Capacity Building for Teachers and Management

The intervention schools will receive Nutrition Education Capacity Building for Teachers and School Management, before the above four NGTS components is implemented in the respective school. Three representatives from each school will be invited to attend a 5-day training that include knowledge on adolescent nutrition and health issues, as well as skills in implementing the NGTS Program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia

  collaborator OTHER

• SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Indah S Widyahening, Professor · SEAMEO RECFON

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-01-09

Primary Completion

2024-08-31

Completion

2024-08-31

Countries

• Indonesia

Study Locations