Clinical trial NCT06419218: Increasing School Meal Participation
Official title: Evaluating a Marketing Campaign to Increase Participation in School Meals
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Nutrition, Healthy
Keywords: health
nutrition
children
parent perceptions
school lunch
school breakfast
food access
Lead sponsor: Stanford University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
First posted: 2024-05-17
Enrollment: 832
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study aims to determine whether an online marketing campaign increases children's school meal participation. Parents whose children do not currently eat school meals frequently will be exposed to messages designed to encourage their children's increased participation in school meals.

Detailed description: In this 6-week-long online randomized controlled trial, participants will be randomized to one of two arms: 1) Control (neutral) messages or 2) Messages designed to increase school meal participation. In each arm, participants will join private Facebook groups corresponding to their study arm. The study team will post campaign messages to these groups. Participants will answer online survey questions before and after the study on their attitudes about school meals and their child's participation in school meals.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years or older
* Parent of a child attending a public school in grades 1-5
* Resides in one of the following states: California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont
* Has internet access
* Has a Facebook account
* Child consumes 3 or fewer school lunches per week or 3 or fewer school breakfasts per week

Exclusion Criteria:

* Younger than 18 years old
* Does not have a child attending a public school in grades 1-5
* Resides out of one of the following states: California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont
* Does not have internet access
* Does not have a Facebook account
* Child consumes more than 3 school lunches per week and more than 3 school breakfasts per week

Primary outcomes:
measure: Children's consumption of school lunches
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Children's consumption of school breakfasts
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Noticing the school meal campaign
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.
measure: Number of school meals campaign topics recognized
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.
measure: Frequency of reading campaign messages
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.
measure: Social interactions about campaign
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.
measure: Social interactions about school meals
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at 6 weeks.
measure: Perceived benefits of school lunch
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Perceived benefits of school breakfast
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Knowledge that school lunch is free
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Knowledge that school breakfast is free
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Perceived healthfulness of school lunch
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Perceived healthfulness of school breakfast
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Intentions to encourage their children's consumption of school lunch
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Intentions to encourage their children's consumption of school breakfast
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Barriers to children's school lunch consumption
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Barriers to children's school breakfast consumption
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Household food insecurity
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
measure: Child food insecurity
timeFrame: Collected in a ~10 minute survey at baseline and again at 6 weeks.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Palo Alto
country: United States
facility: Stanford School of Medicine
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistant Professor
name: Anna Grummon, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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