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Super Chef - an Online Program Promoting the Mediterranean Dietary Pattern to Lower Income Families
Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine
Summary
Given the limited effectiveness of single food group-targeted interventions to enhance child nutrition, a key component of current and future health, innovative approaches are needed. Healthy dietary patterns are emerging as an important intervention target, and the Mediterranean Dietary pattern has been particularly effective at reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors, a leading cause of death in the US. Since parents are the gatekeepers of the home food environment and influence child intake through food-related parenting practices, children enjoy cooking with parents, and home food preparation is associated with more healthful dietary intake. Therefore, the investigators propose to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an online cooking intervention for parent-child dyads living in low-income households that promotes the Mediterranean dietary pattern and healthful food-related parenting practices.
Official title: Super Chef: Family Fun in the Kitchen!
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
10 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
88
Start Date
2022-09-30
Completion Date
2026-09
Last Updated
2025-07-20
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Super Chef: Family Fun in the Kitchen!
Two-phase intervention: in the online phase, a professional chef will demonstrate cooking strategies to help families modify existing recipes to be consistent with the Mediterranean Dietary pattern. Effective food parenting practices will also be integrated into the intervention. The intervention is guided by theory - Family Systems, Social Cognitive, and Self Determination - and gamification techniques. At the end of the online phase, dyads will set a goal to use the cooking strategy and make a plan to facilitate goal attainment. In the home phase, the dyad will work together to use the plan to meet the goal. Dyads can also participate in bonus activities. Prior to viewing the next session, dyads will report whether the goal was attained and any bonus activities completed. Collectively, this will determine level of Super Chef status the family achieves at the end of the program (Session 4).
Locations (1)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States