Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children: the impact of linking community kitchens to a school food program on children's diet diversity, nutritional status and school performance

Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children: a community-based intervention linking community kitchens to a school food program - the Healthy Children component

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN15931286

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2018-10-22

Start date

2014-06-04

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2022-05-09

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Conditions

Children's diet diversity and nutritional status Not Applicable Children's diet diversity and nutritional status

Interventions

This study, Healthy Children, is a component of a wider study called Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children. The Healthy Schools component is an 8 month, non-randomised school-based interv

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Child aged over 6 years 2. Registered student in one of four specified UNRWA schools

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None - children were asked to declare any food allergies they might have

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Schoolchildren’s diet diversity assessed using the Diet Diversity Score (DDS) at the baseline and after 8 months	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The following are assessed at the baseline and after 8 months: 1. Nutritional status, assessed by measuring height and weight and recording age and calculating indices such as height-for-age Z-score and BMI-for-age Z-score 2. Haemoglobin, assessed using a Hemocue 3. School absence, assessed by the number of school days missed between the baseline and the end of the study 4. Educational outcomes, including final language and maths grades	—

Measure

Time frame

The following are assessed at the baseline and after 8 months: 1. Nutritional status, assessed by measuring height and weight and recording age and calculating indices such as height-for-age Z-score and BMI-for-age Z-score 2. Haemoglobin, assessed using a Hemocue 3. School absence, assessed by the number of school days missed between the baseline and the end of the study 4. Educational outcomes, including final language and maths grades

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Countries

Lebanon

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026