Elementary School, Healthy Lifestyle, Water Consumption
Conditions
Keywords
Plain water, Educative strategies, Effectiveness
Brief summary
The current project seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of numerous educational strategy interventions to increase the percentage of water consumed among early elementary school students over a 1-year period.
Detailed description
A community intervention trial will be conducted at four public elementary schools of the Coyoacan Delegation in Mexico City. It will include healthy first graders during the 2017-2018 school year whose parents agree to participate through verbal informed consent and a signed privacy notice. These parents will complete a baseline 3-day beverage record (two weekdays and one weekend day). The four schools will be assigned to one of three groups: Group I will receive the educational strategy during the first grade; Group II will receive it during first and second grades; and Group III will receive it during the first, second, and third grades. All schools will have water dispensers inside the classrooms, and the children will receive a reusable 600-mL bottle so they are able to consume water on demand throughout the day. A second record of beverage consumption will be obtained by completing multiple interventions within each group, and a third record will be completed 1 year later.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALI Prefer Plain Water
The students will receive four educational sessions of approximately 1 hour. These sessions will be given every 2 weeks, and some will be supervised by a nutritionist.
Sponsors
Jose Francisco Gonzalez-Zamora
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Experimental, analytical, longitudinal, and prospective designs will be employed. The assignment will be conducted by each school.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
5 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Healthy children * Both girls and boys * Children whose parents agree to participation in the study through verbal informed consent * Children whose parents sign a privacy notice
Exclusion criteria
* Children who present with any pathology that interferes with the free consumption of water or with the proper execution of the study * Children for whom it is not possible to obtain a baseline record of beverage consumption
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Percentage of water consumed | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Changes in average water consumption/ total liquid consumption |
| Total liquid Consumption | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Changes in the average of total liquids consumed per child over a 3-day period |
| Water consumption | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Changes in the average of water consumption per child over a 3-day period |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Effectiveness of educational strategy | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Changes in the percentage of water consumed, 1 year after completing the interventions within each group relative to baseline measurement |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BMI | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Indicator of the relationship between weight and height |
| Water consumption per school | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and on monthly bases | Quantity of water consumed in 1 month per participating school |
| Health condition | Up to 4 years, baseline measurement and once a year | Health condition that (in the opinion of the investigator) enables the participant to have free consumption of water |
Countries
Mexico
Contacts
Primary ContactJose F Gonzalez-Zamora, MD MSc
Backup ContactClaudia Pimentel-Hernández, MD MSc
Outcome results
None listed