An interventional study of Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends') in Obesity, sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Completed at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-02-05.
Sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This study aims to test the effectiveness of a community-located, peer mentored intervention to improve home food preparation practices in families with young children.
Barriers to healthy eating and active living are at the heart of the obesity epidemic. This study focuses on a key factor underlying healthy eating: home food preparation. Preparing food at home entails a sequence of steps from obtaining food, to planning and cooking or preparing meals, to finally serving and eating the meal. Many strategies to curb obesity in children focus on eliminating processed and fast food from the diet, as well as improving access to fresh produce and other healthy ingredients. A collective ability to regularly and reliably prepare healthy food at home is implicit in these and other prevention strategies. Little research, however, has grappled with the phenomenon that there has been a generational loss of home food preparation ability over the past few decades. What is urgently needed is to design effective, enticing, and scalable interventions to improve home food preparation practices across diverse groups.
This study aims to test the effectiveness of a community-located, peer mentored intervention to improve home food preparation practices in families with young children. The investigators will partner with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Early Head Start, a community-based organization serving families with children ages 0 to 3 years in West Philadelphia, aiming specifically to:
The investigators hypothesize that families participating in this intervention will demonstrate improvement in parental self-efficacy related to cooking, home food preparation practices, and the healthfulness of parents' and toddlers' diets post-intervention, compared to families who do not participate in the intervention.
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Mentee Inclusion Criteria:
Caregiver enrollment in CHOP EHS requires the following:
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Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends')
Behavioral: Peer mentoring intervention ('Cooking with Friends')
'Cooking with Friends' is a community-located, peer mentoring intervention aimed at improving home food preparation practices in families with young children. The intervention was developed in an iterative, community-based research approach, and will be conducted in partnership with Early Head Start (EHS) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Cooking with Friends builds on existing monthly cooking classes at EHS that have proven popular with EHS families. Through 5 weekly classes, this intervention will explore topics of how to prepare healthy foods at home. The peer mentoring component is a novel innovation to this intervention. The intervention pairs peer mentors to individual mentees in a community setting, to effect behavioral change among caregivers of young children.
Food Frequency Questionnaire
The primary outcome will be the change in healthfulness of the diet as measured by food frequency questionnaires for participants through the course of the study. Study staff will meet with each participant and ask them to answer questions about the frequency of their food and beverage consumption over the course of a 12 month period. The results will be analyzed for consumption of specific food-groups (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, etc.). The primary endpoint is the difference in the healthfulness of the diet between the immediate intervention group and the control group at week 23.
Time frame: 23 weeks from Baseline
Cooking-related self-efficacy
Self-efficacy related to cooking will be measured using a 25-item instrument. We will assess to assess the difference between the immediate intervention group and the control group at week 23.
Time frame: 23 weeks from Baseline
Home food preparation practices
Home food preparation practices will be measured using questions from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We will measure the difference in home food preparation practices between the immediate intervention group and the control group at week 23.
Time frame: 23 weeks from Baseline
Body mass index
We will measure the change in parent and child body mass index before and after the intervention.
Time frame: 41 weeks from Baseline
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