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Fuel for Fun: A cluster-randomized controlled study of cooking skills, eating behaviors, and physical activity of 4th graders and their families

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Cunningham-Sabo, Leslie, Lohse, Barbara, Smith, Stephanie, Browning, Ray, Strutz, Erin, Nigg, Claudio, Balgopal, Meena, Kelly, Kathleen +1 more·2016·BMC Public Health

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BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity remains a serious concern in the United States and in many other countries. Direct experience preparing and tasting healthful foods and increasing activity during the school day are promising prevention approaches. Engaging parents and families remains an important challenge. Fuel for Fun: Cooking with Kids Plus Parents and Play is a multi-component school- and family-based intervention for 4th graders and their families intended to promote positive food and activity environments, policies and behaviors at the individual, family and school levels. This paper describes the design and evaluation plan. METHODS/DESIGN: Four cohorts of 4th-graders and their parents from 8 schools in 2 districts in the same Northern Colorado region are participating in a 4-arm cluster randomized controlled trial. Theory-based Fuel for Fun consists of 5 components delivered over 1 school year: 1) Cooking with Kids - Colorado; an experiential classroom-based cooking and tasting curriculum, 2) Cafeteria Connections; cafeteria-based reinforcements of classroom food experiences using behavioral economic strategies, 3) SPARK active recess; a playground intervention to engage children in moderate to vigorous activity, 4) Fuel for Fun Family; multi-element supports targeting parents to reinforce the 3 school-based components at home, and 5) About Eating; an online interactive program for parents addressing constructs of eating competence and food resource management. Outcomes include child and parent measures of fruit and vegetable preferences and intake, cooking, physical activity, sedentary behaviors and attitudes. School level data assess lunch plate waste and physical activity at recess. In-depth diet and accelerometry assessments are collected with a subsample of parent-child dyads. Data are collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention at 7 months, and at 12 month follow-up. We anticipate recruiting 1320-1584 children and their parents over the length of the project. DISCUSSION: The Fuel for Fun study design allows for impact assessment of school-, family- and online parent-based intervention components separately and in combination. Study strengths include use of theory- and evidence-based programs, valid child and parent self-report instruments, and objective measures of food, cooking, and physical activity behaviors at the individual, family and school levels. Parent involvement and engagement is examined through multiple strategies. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov registration number NCT02491294 . Registered 7 July, 2015.

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  1. [58]Cunningham-Sabo L, Hanika-Ortiz A, Walters L, Stacey J, Lohse B. Process evaluation measures of experiential foods program for elementary schoolchildren. In: American Public Health Association Annual Conference: 2008. San Diego: American Public Health Association; 2008. https://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/webprogram/Paper178625.html.

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Cunningham-Sabo, L., Lohse, B., Smith, S., Browning, R., Strutz, E., Nigg, C., Balgopal, M., Kelly, K., & Ruder, E.
Affiliations
  • Colorado State University (US)
  • Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
  • Nike (United States) (US)
  • Aims Community College (US)
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
Corresponding author
Cunningham-Sabo, Leslie
Venue
BMC Public Health
Published
2016-05-26
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
444-444
ISSN
1471-2458 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2407558766
Cited by
36
References
61
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
FWCI
4.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • BMC Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
Funders
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2012-68001-19603)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
Keywords
childhood obesity prevention, cooking skills, family intervention, school-based intervention, dietary habits, physical activity, recess, sedentary behavior, fruit and vegetable intake, food preferences, parental involvement, behavioral economics, eating competence, food resource management
MeSH terms
Child, Child Health Services, Colorado, Cooking, Family Characteristics, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Male, School Health Services, Exercise, Pediatric Obesity

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