Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:48 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:48 PM
NCT ID:
NCT04109768
Brief Summary:
The main goals of this study is to better understand how an experiential cooking, movement and mindfulness intervention influence elementary school children at Spring Valley School. program diet, fitness, metabolic outcomes, health literacy and overall well-being. Specifically, the role of the novel empowering experiential learning through a cooking and fitness intervention activities will play on health literacy and metabolic outcomes, engagement in fitness and motivation, and stress levels will be evaluated.
Detailed Description:
Nutrition and mindful movement program activities will take place during the school day. Children will be given the opportunity understand the value of quality nutrition in the prevention com-morbidities of treatment and poor lifestyle choices. The intervention will consist of ten sessions. This includes pre- and post-assessments (weeks 1 and 10) and eight weekly 1-hour interactive culinary medicine education sessions. Children will be asked questions about their diet, feelings, physical activity. Height, weight, waist circumference, and grip strength will also be measured. This will take about one hour prior to beginning the education portion of our program. Each week, \\a nutrition lecture, a cooking demo and fitness activities will be completed over two-45 minutes sessions during PE class. These hands-on applied nutrition sessions include fundamental of nutrition, cooking skills, cooking skills, and activities. Experiential or hands-on applied learning, including culturally appropriate meal preparation and personalized nutrition and mindful movements, represents a potential tool to increase adolescent health literacy as well as empower adolescent to engage their families. Cooking as medicine helps people make the healthy behavior changes they are seeking because it allows hands-on teaching and learning in a fun interactive environment, without stigma. This strategy encompasses combination of thinking and doing skills that are applied during home food preparation, as well as conceptual and perceptual abilities on food handling, safety and storage, and other factors related to nutrition. The delivery of cooking as medicine programs serves as a way to improve and promote confidence, well-being, and enhance meal quality and preparation practices and offer a valuable platform to engage children and families via inclusive social activities, whilst positively impacting their dietary profiles and health outcomes.
Study:
NCT04109768
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT04109768