Engaging School and Family in Navajo Gardening for Health

This study builds on several years of working with Navajo communities to increase gardening and healthy eating. In collaboration with the Dream Diné Charter School in Shiprock, NM, the investigators propose to develop a school garden intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and reduce risk for obesity among Navajo families. The intervention will integrate: an enhanced school garden plot; a curriculum for elementary school children on gardening and healthy eating; and family engagement in the curriculum and at community gardening fairs.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Dietary Habits; Health Behavior; Eating Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Gardening

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 40
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Washington
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
      • Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Attending School Participating in Trial
• Parent able to Participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Behavioral; Behavioral Gardening Exposure	Behavioral: Gardening; Assist with planting and maintaining the school garden, as well as observe the school garden curriculum and dietary assessment protocols

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Child healthy eating behaviors assessment	Assess servings of vegetables and fruits eaten per week from the picture sort frequency method using the 5 a Day questions	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Child Gardening Participation Survey	Survey children to see if they have a garden at home, and if so how often they do gardening activities there	1 year
Child Gardening Self-efficacy Survey	Survey children to identify how confident they are in their abilities to perform gardening behaviors, utilizing six-item likert scale	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Shirley Beresford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 21, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 13, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): June 13, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 13, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): December 14, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 16, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 11, 2019
• Last Verified: April 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: RG1001447; 8452 (Other Identifier: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No