The Green (Growing Right: Eating Eco-Friendly and Nutritious) Project

绿色（生长权利：饮食环保、营养）项目

• 批准号: 7943465
• 负责人: JEANNE P GOLDBERG
• 金额: $ 53.62万
• 依托单位: TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7943465
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Affect; Age; Aging; American; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Cardiovascular Diseases; Caregivers; Child; Childhood; Chronic Disease; Communication; Control Groups; Diet; Dietary Intervention; Dietary Practices; Digital Photography; Eating; Eating Behavior; Effectiveness; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Impact; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Family; Family Study; Feedback; Food; Goals; Health; Health Food; Home environment; Human Resources; Individual; Intake; Intervention; Link; Maintenance; Malignant Neoplasms; Massachusetts; Modeling; Motivation; Nutrient; Nutritional; Obesity; Outcome; Outcome Assessment; Overweight; Personal Satisfaction; Population; Population Group; Process; Qualitative Research; Quality of life; Randomized; Recommendation; Research; Research Design; Schools; Social Marketing; Solutions; Target Populations; Testing; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Weight; Work; base; behavior change; bone health; cost; design; direct application; economic cost; elementary school; experience; food quality; fruits and vegetables; group intervention; improved; innovation; insight; interest; novel; novel strategies; nutrition; primary outcome; public health relevance; secondary outcome; social; sugar; sweetened beverage; teacher; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Poor diet quality in children contributes to obesity, chronic disease, and diminished quality of life. Many efforts have focused on foods provided in schools. But elementary school children regularly bring snacks and lunches. Little attention has been directed toward improving the nutrient profiles of foods brought from home. The proposed intervention, The GREEN (Growing Right: Eating Eco-friendly and Nutritious) Project takes advantage of a natural synergy between healthy eating and eco-friendly behaviors to address the quality of foods brought to school from home. Our novel, school-based communications campaign will combine messages about the nutritional and eco-friendly qualities of foods. Our target population is third and fourth graders and their caregivers in Eastern Massachusetts. Our central hypothesis is that at the end of one school year, children who receive a campaign with combined healthy eating and eco-friendly messages will show greater improvement in diet quality and eco-friendliness of snacks and lunches brought from home than those who receive healthy eating communications alone or those in a control group. The theory-based multi-channel communications campaign will be developed on the basis of qualitative research with the target population. For the campaign, schools will be randomized to three conditions to receive: (1) healthy eating and eco-friendly messages; (2) healthy eating only messages; or (3) delayed healthy eating eco-friendly messages after serving as controls. The primary outcome is change in the number of servings of fruits and vegetables brought to school. Secondary outcomes will include changes in the quantity of sugar-sweetened beverages and processed, energy-dense foods, as well as the weight of trash associated with foods brought from home. Baseline and outcome assessments of these outcomes will be made using digital photography. After the GREEN Project has been implemented, the RE-AIM framework will be used to make revisions to the intervention which will then be disseminated to the delayed intervention group. This design will provide an opportunity to test the feasibility of replication. If successful, this novel approach, taking advantage of the synergy between healthy eating and eco-friendly messages, could be extended to elementary schools across the US and adapted to other populations. In addition, the strategy might be extended to other behaviors affecting personal health that can be tied to eco-friendly behaviors. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Poor diet quality in children in the United States contributes to obesity, chronic disease, and diminished quality of life. Our innovative school-based nutrition communication campaign, which combines the synergies of healthy eating and eco-friendly behaviors addresses the quality of foods third and fourth graders bring to school from home. If successful, the communication strategy we will employ will contribute to improving dietary quality among school-children, thus improving their quality of life.

描述（由申请人提供）：儿童饮食质量差会导致肥胖，慢性疾病和生活质量降低。许多努力都集中在学校提供的食物上。但是小学生定期带零食和午餐。很少关注改善从家中带来的食物的营养概况。拟议的干预措施，绿色（生长：饮食环保和营养）项目利用了健康饮食与环保行为之间的自然协同作用，以解决从家里带来的食品的质量。我们的小说，基于学校的交流活动将结合有关食品营养和环保品质的信息。我们的目标人群是马萨诸塞州东部的三年级和四年级学生及其护理人员。我们的核心假设是，在一个学年结束时，接受健康饮食和环保信息的竞选活动的儿童比单独接受健康饮食通讯或对照组的零食和午餐的饮食质量和饮食质量和生态友好性更大。基于理论的多渠道通信活动将基于与目标人群的定性研究开发。对于竞选活动，学校将被随机分为三个条件：（1）健康饮食和环保信息； （2）健康饮食信息；或（3）用作控制后延迟健康饮食环保消息。主要结果是将送入学校的水果和蔬菜的份量变化。次要结果将包括变化的糖粉饮料和加工，能量浓缩的食物，以及与家中带来的食物相关的垃圾的重量。这些结果的基线和结果评估将使用数码摄影进行。实施绿色项目后，RE-AIM框架将用于修订干预措施，然后将其传播到延迟的干预组。该设计将为测试复制的可行性提供机会。如果成功的话，这种新颖的方法可以利用健康饮食与环保信息之间的协同作用，可以扩展到美国各地的小学并适应其他人群。此外，该策略可能扩展到影响个人健康的其他行为，这可能与环保行为有关。 公共卫生相关性：美国儿童的饮食质量差会导致肥胖，慢性疾病和生活质量降低。我们创新的基于学校的营养传播活动结合了健康饮食和环保行为的协同作用，解决了三年级和四年级的食品质量从家里带到学校。如果成功的话，我们将采用的沟通策略将有助于改善学校孩子的饮食质量，从而改善他们的生活质量。