Clinical trial NCT02258802: Pilot Psychoeducational Intervention Model to Improve Nutritional Status in Low Resource Settings
Official title: A Psychoeducational Intervention Model in Nutrition to Improve Nutritional Status in a Pilot Low Resource Population in the City of Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Malnutrition
Child Overnutrition
Malnutrition in Children
Malnutrition, Child
Nutrition Disorders, Child
Malnutrition
Keywords: psychoeducational intervention
nutrition intervention
malnutrition
micronutrient deficiency
nutrition transition
Lead sponsor: Universidad de Monterrey
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: FEMSA Foundation
First posted: 2014-10-07
Enrollment: 65
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate a psychoeducational intervention focused to improve nutritional status, specifically micronutrients, of mothers and caregivers of children between the ages of 5 and 13 years and their children through providing healthy cooking lessons in their communities.

Detailed description: Mexico's malnutrition problem goes beyond lack of food. Nutrition transition in our country has modified dietary patterns in a way that now we observe more and more a decrease in consumption of micronutrient rich foods, like vegetables, and an increase in consumption of high energy-dense foods with low content of micronutrients (highly processed foods). In Mexico, over 70% of the population presents an inadequate vegetable intake, with a higher prevalence in scholars (5 - 11 years), where only 17% of them consume \>50% of the recommended vegetable intake. A vegetable poor diet is related to malnutrition, poor cognitive development and low physical performance. Added to this, Mexican families have lost the tradition of cooking at home. It is well known that different factors contribute to a population's diet and cooking at home as well as eating with the family have been identified as fundamental factors to promote a healthy diet. Therefore, the aim of this psychoeducational intervention in nutrition is to improve nutritional status in families, particularly mothers and caregivers of children between the ages of 5 and 13 years and their children through providing healthy cooking lessons in their communities where the optimal preparation and use of local foods based on vegetables is promoted at the same time the importance of cooking at home and eating as a family is highlighted.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 to 60 years
* Premenopausal
* BMI \< 45 during enrollment
* Apparently healthy
* With a child in her care between the ages of 5 and 13 years

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant or breastfeeding
* With a hysterectomy in the past 3 months
* Alcohol consumption \> 14 drinks a week
* Use of vitamin supplements

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in food knowledge and behaviour
timeFrame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in vegetable intake
timeFrame: baseline, 1 year
measure: Change in dietary practices
timeFrame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year
measure: Change in food waste
timeFrame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year
measure: Change in cognitive development in children
timeFrame: baseline, 1 year
measure: Change in anthropometry
timeFrame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year
measure: Change in micronutrient status
timeFrame: baseline, 1 year
measure: Change in inflammatory markers
timeFrame: baseline, 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad de Monterrey
name: Ana Carla Cepeda-Lopez, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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