None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The Cancer Council NSW has implemented the Eat It To Beat It Program designed to decrease cancer risk, with the focus on changing individual food purchasing decisions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Strategies target parents and carers of primary school aged children in the Hunter region of NSW. The goals of this nutrition intervention program are to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables by the target group by 0.4 serves per day by the end of 2010. The Eat It To Beat It Program has a number of strategies to achieve its aims. One of the strategies for the program is The Fruit & Veg $ense Program. This program consists of: * The Shopping and Budgeting session. * Two newsletters sent to participants at weeks 2 and 5. The randomised controlled trial will determine the efficacy of the Fruit & Veg $ense Program. The research hypothesis is that “Compared with the control group, the participants who complete the Fruit & Veg $ense Program will consume more fruit and vegetables.”
Interventions
The intervention consisted of a 90 minute, peer-led, small group education session. The session content included teaching the recommended intakes and serving sizes for fruit and vegetables; the amount of the food budget that should be spent on fruit and vegetables and the health benefits of fruit and vegetables for the family. The budgeting aspects of the sessions helped to enhance the participants' motivation to purchase and consume more fruit and vegetables, whilst recipe modification and str
The intervention consisted of a 90 minute, peer-led, small group education session. The session content included teaching the recommended intakes and serving sizes for fruit and vegetables; the amount of the food budget that should be spent on fruit and vegetables and the health benefits of fruit and vegetables for the family. The budgeting aspects of the sessions helped to enhance the participants' motivation to purchase and consume more fruit and vegetables, whilst recipe modification and strategies for including fruit and vegetables throughout the day helped to define an ‘action’ phase of how to make the changes. The sessions were supported with printed educational materials including a cookbook. The sessions were followed by a newsletter mailed to participants at week 2 and 5 after attending the session. The newsletters were designed to reinforce what was learnt at the sessions, to provide further educational information and to motivate participants to make the required changes in consumption.
Sponsors
Cancer Council NSW
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Eligible participants included parents or carers of primary school-aged children residing in the Hunter region of Australia who were not consuming the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables at the time of the trial . Participants had to be willing to undertake the complete Fruit & Veg $ense Program and intend to remain in the Hunter region for the 6 months subsequent to their enrolment in the trial.
Exclusion criteria
Those parents who were already consuming the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables at the time of the trial .
Outcome results
None listed