None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The study aims to examine the use of printed education materials to support the dissemination of nutrition guidelines in childcare centres. We hypothesise that the use of these materials will increase the cooks intentions to apply such guidelines when planning their menu. This increase in intentions is also likely to be supported by improvements to attitudes and perceptions of whether other people think this is important. We will also ask cooks to report on whether their menus comply to the nutrition guidelines.
Interventions
Childcare centre cooks in the intervention arm will be mailed a hard copy printed education material together with sections of the nutrition guidelines relevant to menu planning. The design of the printed education material will be theory informed and based on evidence from key systematic reviews in the field. The printed education material will be printed a single A4-sized, double sided and laminated resource. The material will only be mailed out on a single occasion. No other strategy to encou
Childcare centre cooks in the intervention arm will be mailed a hard copy printed education material together with sections of the nutrition guidelines relevant to menu planning. The design of the printed education material will be theory informed and based on evidence from key systematic reviews in the field. The printed education material will be printed a single A4-sized, double sided and laminated resource. The material will only be mailed out on a single occasion. No other strategy to encourage use of the resource will be undertaken. The number of intervention resourced returned and not successfully mailed out will be recorded internally.
Sponsors
Sze Lin Yoong
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Cooks of centre-based childcare centers that are open eight or more hours a day and provide the majority of food to children while in care. Cooks are only eligible to participate if they are involved in planning the menus.
Exclusion criteria
Childcare centres that do not have cooks, do not provide all meals to children, cater specifically for special needs children, family day care or service located within a specific region (Hunter New England) within NSW will be excluded. Cooks that are unable to complete the survey in English will also be excludeed.
Outcome results
None listed