Clinical trial NCT04098419: Evaluation of a Two-tiered Cross-age Teaching Model for Food Literacy-based Education
Official title: Evaluation of a Two-tiered Cross-age Teaching Model for Food Literacy-based Education
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Food Literacy; Adolescent Health; Cross-age Teaching; Nutrition Education; Experiential Learning
Lead sponsor: University of California, Davis
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-09-23
Enrollment: 24
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 9
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This project will serve adolescents from low-income and historically underserved communities through expansion of existing after-school programs. Adolescents from these communities tend to have slower academic progression and higher high school dropout rates. Extracurricular activities, including informal education through after-school programming, have been suggested to improve these rates and increase college enrollment by supporting traditional classroom-based education. The proposed project aims to educate high school-aged adolescents in food, agriculture, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences through informal food literacy education. The project also includes a two-tiered cross-age teaching model, allowing for adolescents to be educated by college interns and to become educators for younger youth. Existing curricula, that encompass FANH sciences, will be utilized at each stage of the project. The purpose of the project is not only to educate adolescents in FANH sciences, but also to advance their motivation and efficacy for graduating high school, attending college, and majoring in FANH sciences. The project aims to accomplish these objectives through empowering adolescents to obtain knowledge, skills, and excitement for food literacy. As this model has not been utilized previously, this project will produce a best practices guide for implementing the existing curricula within a two-tiered cross-age teaching model. Additionally, the college internship and mentoring program created through this project will be continued at the initial sites and expanded to other communities. This will allow for a sustainable approach to educating adolescents in FANH sciences and providing mentorship that encourages future enrollment in college.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* There are two groups of participants (adolescents and younger youth) that will be recruited for this study. Adolescent participants must be high school-aged, approximately 13-17 years. Younger youth must be upper elementary school-aged, approximately 9-12 years. Participants for both age groups will be recruited from existing afterschool programs within each participating school district. Comparison youth for both age groups will be recruited from other students within the same school districts.

For the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, the participating school districts will be in Pittsburg and Williams, California.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Youth from other school districts

Primary outcomes:
measure: Nutrition Knowledge
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Self-Efficacy about Teaching Nutrition
timeFrame: 5 months
measure: Self-Efficacy about Cooking Skills
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Fruit and Vegetable Intake (Skin Carotenoids)
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Dietary intake
timeFrame: 1 school year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Household Food Security
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Anthropometrics (to calculate BMI)
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Civic Responsibility
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Motivation for Educational Attainment
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Academic self-efficacy
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Social and emotional self-efficacy
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Disposition toward FANH sciences
timeFrame: 1 school year
measure: Self-esteem and locus of control
timeFrame: 1 school year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Davis
country: United States
facility: University of California, Davis
state: California
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