Clinical trial NCT02489149: Food and Nutrition Education in Quilombolas Communities With Food Insecurity: Multi-sector Intervention
Official title: Food and Nutrition Education in Quilombolas Communities With Food Insecurity: Intervention Based on Traditional Food Practices, Healthy Eating Promotion and Enforceability of Human Right to Adequate Food
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Keywords: food insecurity
Lead sponsor: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
name: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
First posted: 2015-07-02
Enrollment: 4
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: To optimize the food security in quilombolas communities with high prevalence of food insecurity and obesity, the present study proposes to test a multi-sector intervention including agriculture sectors, health professionals and family members of communities, based on promotion of traditional food practices, health eating and enforceability of human right to adequate food.

Detailed description: The present study proposes to develop nutrition education strategies through multi-sector intervention in order to promote the consumption of healthy foods and improvements in the health status of the quilombola population.This is a non-randomized cluster trial in four quilombolas communities in Southern Brazil (Passo do Lorenço, Algodão, Serrinha do Cristal and Nova Palma), combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Quilombolas certified communities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with higher prevalence of food insecurity and obesity.

Exclusion Criteria:

Community leaders with no interest in study intervention.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Reduction in Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale score
timeFrame: 16 weeks after multisector intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Improve consumption of healthy foods
timeFrame: 16 weeks after multisector intervention
measure: Number of participants who access food programs
timeFrame: 16 weeks after multisector intervention
measure: Number of participants that improve knowledge about citizen rights.
timeFrame: 16 weeks after multisector intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Porto Alegre
country: Brazil
facility: Pos-graduated Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
state: Rio Grande Do Sul
Study officials:
affiliation: Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
name: Marilda Neutzling, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
name: Michele Drehmer, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
name: Daniela Knauth, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
name: Fernanda Bairros, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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