An interventional study of Narrative and Experiential in Food Habits, Food Preferences and Health Behavior, sponsored by University of Leeds. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 5 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-01-17.
Sponsored by University of Leeds · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The aim of this cluster randomized control trial is to test the efficacy of providing experience of a target novel vegetable within the context of an interactive story time to increase intake of the target novel vegetable in preschool aged children (aged 2-5 years).
The aim of this study is to test the efficacy of providing experience of a target novel vegetable within the context of an interactive story time to increase intake of the target novel vegetable in preschool aged children (aged 2-5 years). In particular, the study will assess whether these strategies are effective to encourage intake of an unfamiliar vegetable in children who are fussy eaters.
There are two manipulations in this study - the provision of a story which features either a target vegetable (celeriac) or a control vegetable (carrot) and the presence of experiential learning (smelling, touching, looking at the vegetable) with either the target vegetable or the control vegetable.
Baseline consumption and familiarity of the target veg will be assessed for all children, before the intervention. The intervention consists of two familiarization trials, and 2-weeks of access to a story book featuring vegetables. Following the final familiarization trial, consumption and familiarity will be assessed again. Each familiarization trial consists of a story in class, and depending on condition, an experiential learning episode in class. During the 2 week interval between familiarization sessions nurseries will be requested to ready the story book 5 times in the preschool room (at times convenient to them).
Participants will be cluster randomized into 4 groups (2X2 between subjects design): 1) target vegetable narrative, 2) target vegetable narrative + experiential, 3) control vegetable narrative 4) control vegetable narrative + experiential
Child's food fussiness data will be collected by parents using the Food Fussiness sub scale of the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire. Their usual consumption of the target vegetable will also be measured using parent report.
Nursery staff will be requested to provide feedback to evaluate intervention feasibility, barriers and efficacy.
It is predicted that children's intake of the novel vegetable will vary by intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that providing experience of a target novel vegetable within the context of an interactive story time will encourage preschoolers to taste, try and eat the target vegetable.
155 studies on the registry are indexed under Food Preferences; 20 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 337 is above the median of 133 across 121 interventional studies indexed under Food Preferences.
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Compared within Food Preferences, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Feeding Behavior. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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Exclusion Criteria:
Children will receive the story featuring the target vegetable and NO sensory experience.
Behavioral: Narrative
Children will receive the story featuring the target vegetable and experiential learning with the target vegetable.
Behavioral: Narrative · Behavioral: Experiential
Children will receive the story featuring the control vegetable and NO sensory experience.
Behavioral: Narrative
Children will receive the story featuring the control vegetable and experiential learning with the control vegetable.
Behavioral: Narrative · Behavioral: Experiential
Children will be read a story book featuring vegetables for a minimum of 7 times (including twice during the familiarization phase).
Children will receive hands on experience with the vegetable. They will get to listen, see, feel, touch and smell the actual vegetable during the two familiarization phases.
Change in intake of the target vegetable
Intake of the novel vegetable will be measured at baseline (day 1) and post intervention (day 14). Intake of the novel vegetable will be measured individually and objectively using weight in grams. Change in intake will be calculated by subtraction of baseline intake from post intervention intake.
Time frame: Change in intake of the target vegetable from Baseline to day 14
Knowledge of the target vegetable
Children's knowledge of the target vegetable will be assessed at baseline (day 1) and post intervention (day 14). Children will be asked to name the photo card featuring the target vegetable.
Time frame: Knowledge of the target vegetable at day 14 (post intervention)
Plan to share: Undecided
Ran from Oct 2017 to primary completion in Nov 2017, 1 month.
Of 92 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Food Preferences, half reached primary completion within 5 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 1 and three quarters within 17. This study's 1 month is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 92 studies reached it within 5 months; a quarter within 1 and three quarters within 17.
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