Clinical trial NCT04277312: Project Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the Nexus City for Food, Education, Trust and Health
Official title: Project Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the Nexus City for Food, Education, Trust and Health'
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Keywords: Primary School Children
Food Education
Food Knowledge
Childhood Health
Childhood Wellbeing
Lead sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Invest NI
First posted: 2020-02-20
Enrollment: 1080
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Intervention model description: Project Daire is a randomised-controlled, factorial design trial evaluating two interventions
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Project Daire is a randomised-controlled factorial design trial working in partnership with primary schools and local food producers evaluating two interventions designed to improve primary school children's knowledge of and interest in food and where it comes from, with the ultimate aim of driving improvement in health, well-being and educational status.

Detailed description: Project Daire is a randomised-controlled factorial design trial working in partnership with primary schools and local food producers evaluating two interventions designed to improve primary school children's knowledge of and interest in food and where it comes from, with the ultimate aim of driving improvement in health, well-being and educational status. Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils will be recruited from 15 primary schools in the North West of Northern Ireland and will be randomised to one of four intervention arms: i) 'Engage', ii) 'Nourish', iii) 'Engage' and 'Nourish' and iv) Delayed of duration up to 6 months. Study outcomes include food knowledge, attitudes, trust, diet, behaviour, health and wellbeing and will be collected at baseline and six months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mainstream primary schools willing to be randomly assigned to an intervention,
* Mainstream primary schools willing to engage with the intervention and implement it with their pupils,
* Mainstream primary schools willing to facilitate pre and post-test data collection in their setting,
* Mainstream primary schools within the North West region of Northern Ireland.
* Pupils in Primary 3 (Key Stage 1) and Primary 7 (Key Stage 2) of participating schools were eligible to take part.

Exclusion criteria

* Secondary schools
* Non-mainstream schools
* Schools not in the North West region of Northern Ireland

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in KIDSCREEN-10 score at 6 months
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Change in Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire score at 6 months
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: 24 Hour Dietary Record
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Food Frequency Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Food Shopping, Preparation & Consumption
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Perceived cooking competence
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Agri-Food Knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Food Jobs/Careers Aspirations
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Preference/Willingness to Try
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Attitudes
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Food source to product - knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Trust
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: School food environment observation
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: School food environment questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (Month 0), 6 months
measure: Exposure to/Experience with Agri-Food
timeFrame: Baseline only (Month 0)
measure: Baseline Skills Scale
timeFrame: Baseline only (Month 0)
measure: Daire Evaluation questionnaire
timeFrame: 6 months only
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Belfast
country: United Kingdom
facility: Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
state: Northern Ireland
Study officials:
affiliation: Queen's University, Belfast
name: Jayne Woodside, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Brennan SF, Lavelle F, Moore SE, Dean M, McKinley MC, McCole P, Hunter RF, Dunne L, O'Connell NE, Cardwell CR, Elliott CT, McCarthy D, Woodside JV. Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2021 Feb 4;18(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s12966-021-01086-y.