Clinical trial NCT03156803: Enhancing Knowledge Translation in Nutrition Through a Healthy Eating Blog
Official title: Enhancing Knowledge Translation in Nutrition Through a Healthy Eating Blog: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Lead sponsor: Laval University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-05-17
Enrollment: 84
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of an evidence-based healthy eating blog on dietary behaviors of mothers

Detailed description: Mothers randomised to the experimental group were exposed to one weekly blog post for 6 months. Blog posts focus on the improvement of dairy products as well as vegetables and fruits consumption targeting five food skills categories: (1) knowledge about food, nutrition and cooking; (2) planning of healthy meals, and for including children to develop their food skills; (3) conceptualizing outcomes; (4) mechanical techniques for food preparation; (5) perception of food characteristics. Each post included a step-by-step recipe developed by the research team and featuring dairy products, vegetables and fruits. Recipes were described textually and also using pictures. Twenty-six posts were created over the six-month intervention. Participants randomised to the control group were not exposed to the healthy eating blog. The primary outcome is the daily intakes of dairy products, vegetables and fruits. The secondary outcomes are mothers' food skills and body weight.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Have Internet access, have at least one child aged two to twelve years, are mostly in charge of the planning and preparation of family meals, consume less than two servings a day of dairy products and/or less than seven servings a day of vegetables and fruits.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Take medications that could affect food intake, have eating disorders, are dieting, are currently pregnant or lactating.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Daily intakes of dairy products, vegetables and fruits measured by a validated web-based food frequency questionnaire
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Food skills measured by a web-based questionnaire
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Body weight
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Quebec
country: Canada
facility: Laval University
Study officials:
affiliation: Laval University
name: Sophie Desroches, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Dumas AA, Lemieux S, Lapointe A, Provencher V, Robitaille J, Desroches S. Recruitment and retention of mothers of preschoolers and school-aged children in a social media-delivered healthy eating intervention: lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2020 Aug 10;21(1):706. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04628-0.
citation: Dumas AA, Lemieux S, Lapointe A, Provencher V, Robitaille J, Desroches S. Effects of an Evidence-Informed Healthy Eating Blog on Dietary Intakes and Food-Related Behaviors of Mothers of Preschool- and School-Aged Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2020 Jan;120(1):53-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2019.05.016. Epub 2019 Sep 10.