Impact of Vouchers and Nutrition Education on the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables Among Vulnerable Families (FLAM)

Conditions

Nutrition Policy, Primary Prevention

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether fruit and vegetables vouchers combined with educational support may increase fruits and vegetables consumption of children aged 3 to 10 living in vulnerable families in Saint-Denis, France.

Buscail C, Gendreau J, Daval P, Lombrail P, Hercberg S, Latino-Martel P, Julia C.

2019-04-046 citations

10.1186/s40795-019-0289-4

Recruitment of precarious families in an interventional study: Lessons from the French “Fruits and vegetables at home” (FLAM) trial

Camille Buscail, Aurore Margat, Thibaut Miszkowicz, Judith Gendreau, Paul Daval et al. (10 authors)

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications2018-11-022 citations

10.1016/j.conctc.2018.10.008

Fruits and vegetables at home (FLAM): a randomized controlled trial of the impact of fruits and vegetables vouchers in children from low-income families in an urban district of France.

Buscail C, Margat A, Petit S, Gendreau J, Daval P, Lombrail P, Hercberg S, Latino-Martel P, Maurice A, Julia C.

2018-08-2817 citations

10.1186/s12889-018-5908-5

Interventions

OTHERVouchers

The vouchers sent to families can be used in supermarkets for fresh, frozen or canned fruits and vegetables, excluding potatoes. The amount of the vouchers takes into account family composition, calculated to correspond to a serving per day per person.

OTHERNutrition education

Nutrition education workshops taught by a dietician

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

3 Years to 10 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* At least one of the following criteria : * One or both parent(s) is/are beneficiary of resource allocation condition * One or both parent is/are unemployed * Household income below the poverty line * Minimum of one child aged 3 to 10 at the time of the inclusion * Stable housing

Exclusion criteria

* Parent is under 18 * Family having no permanent address or planned move within a year * Consent form unsigned * Opposition of a parent for their child's inclusion in the study * Higher household income of 1700 euros per month for single-parent family or higher than 2 000 euros for other families

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Proportion of small consumers of fruits and vegetables among children	12 months	Average daily intake of fruits and vegetables is measured using a food frequency questionnaire, in order to determine the proportion of small consumer of fruits and vegetables. Before-after comparisons will be made in each arm, and compared between both arms at T+1. Subjects consuming less than 3.5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day are defined as small consumers.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Proportion of small consumers of fruits and vegetables among adults (parents)	12 months	Average daily intake of fruits and vegetables is measured using a food frequency questionnaire, in order to determine the proportion of small consumer of fruits and vegetables. Before-after comparisons will be made in each arm, and compared between both arms at T+1. Subjects consuming less than 3.5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day are defined as small consumers.
Utilization rate of vouchers (voucher arm)	12 months	—

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed