An interventional study of Psychoeducational intervention in Child Malnutrition, Child Overnutrition and Malnutrition in Children, sponsored by Universidad de Monterrey. Completed at 1 site in Mexico. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-05-03.
Sponsored by Universidad de Monterrey · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
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Comer en Familia is a psychoeducational intervention in nutrition aimed to improve nutritional status in families, particularly mothers and caregivers of children between the ages of 5 and 13 years and their children through providing healthy cooking lessons in their communities where the optimal preparation and use of local foods based on vegetables is promoted at the same time the importance of cooking at home and eating as a family is highlighted.
It is well known that in order to promote a proper nutrition and to prevent malnutrition in Mexican population, both by deficiencies and excesses, it is essential to recover Mexican food culture. It is known that only information is insufficient to implement healthy lifestyles. There are a number of barriers that interfere with the adoption of healthy dietary practices that need to be identified and addressed in order to achieve the adoption of healthy eating behaviors. Therefore, Comer en Familia focuses on the people, their lifestyles, motivations and social context, based on an action methodology. To design the program, culinary traditions from different country regions were integrated, the habits of proper food preparation at home, promoting eating in the company of family with special emphasis on the importance of enjoying the taste of food were also integrated. This model delivers information on the transcendence of preparing food at home, the impact of nutrients on health and the influence of eating habits of the family in the conducts of their members in a practical way. Comer en Familia is a nutritional educational model that aims to promote proper nutrition, and therefore improve health and welfare of the beneficiaries of food banks. Through 24 cooking workshops throughout a period of a year, each workshop every 15 days, communities will be trained in optimal food preparation and the use of local food, based mainly on vegetables, while promoting the importance of cooking and having family meals. Anthropometric evaluations and interviews on food practices will be conducted to the beneficiaries at the beginning and at the end of the program. Anthropometric evaluations will be carried out and psychosocial risks surveys will be applied to the children in charge of the mothers/ caregivers from Comer en Familia. Also, in a sub-sample of the population of mothers/caregivers benefitted from the program, fasting capillary glucose and hemoglobin will be measured at the beginning and at the end of Comer en Familia.
168 studies on the registry are indexed under Child Nutrition Disorders; 35 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 12,400 is above the median of 400 across 133 interventional studies indexed under Child Nutrition Disorders.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will be receiving a cooking lesson in their community every 2 weeks for 1 year.
Behavioral: Psychoeducational intervention
These are participants from the communities where the intervention is active but are not attending the cooking lessons.
These are participants from a community where the intervention is not active.
A mobile kitchen visits the 16 selected communities every 2 weeks for a period of 1 year. A 30 minute cooking lesson is given by a trained instructor, the recipes have been designed to be quick and easy to make, use local and inexpensive ingredients, contain mostly vegetables and have a good taste. During the lesson, healthy habit and cooking tips are mentioned as well as the importance of cooking at home and having family meals . A printed version of the recipe is given to every participant. Every session participants are encouraged to prepare the recipe. At the end of the lesson all the participants get to taste the meal and express their opinion.
Also known as: Psychoeducational intervention in nutrition
Change in food knowledge and behavior Questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Change in Weight
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Change in height
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Change in psychosocial risk Questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Change in capillary hemoglobin
Capillary blood sample
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Change in capillary glucose
Capillary blood sample
Time frame: Baseline, 1 year
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Jun 2016 to primary completion in Dec 2017, 18 months.
Of 82 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Child Nutrition Disorders, half reached primary completion within 19 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 35. This study's 18 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 85 studies reached it within 19 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 36.
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