Co-creation of Nutrition Interventions in Higher Education Settings (DACCORD Study) (DACCORD)

How Can a Student Citizens' Assembly Facilitate the Co-creation of Nutrition Interventions in Higher Education Settings (DACCORD Study)

The DACCORD study is a participatory research project which aims to provide insights on how to involve higher education students and diverse partners in the co-creation of campus nutrition interventions through a deliberative mini-public.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Dietary Habits

Detailed Description

The DACCORD study takes place at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN), located in the Seine Saint Denis department, in the Northern area of the Paris region (France). The intervention consists in a deliberative mini-public, a student citizen's assembly on diet and physical activity. The mandate of this student citizen's assembly is to co-create a list of concrete proposals that would improve the access of USPN students to sustainable diets and physical activity. The mini-public includes 30 students enrolled at USPN at the time of the study and a team of academic and non-academic partners involved in student life, nutrition, physical activity, or public policies.

The specific aims of the DACCORD study are 1) to design and implement a student citizens' assembly using participatory approaches, 2) to describe its process and evaluate its transferability, 3) to evaluate changes in nutritional habits, knowledge and citizen practices among students participating in the student citizen's assembly, using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Transferability will be evaluated continuously throughout the study, up to one year after completion of the student citizens' assembly. Nutritional habits, knowledge and citizen practices will be evaluated before and 1 months after the student citizens' assembly.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Alice Bellicha, PhD; Phone Number: 0033148388933; Email: a.bellicha@eren.smbh.univ-paris13.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• being an adult (18 years of age or older)
• being enrolled at USPN at the time of the study
• being enrolled in initial training with in-person classes

Exclusion Criteria:

• being enrolled in continuing education or work-study programs

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Transferability indicators (Reach indicator of the RE-AIM framework)	Proportion and representativeness of students participating in the mini-public	Throughout implementation of the student citizens assembly (5 months)
Transferability indicators (Effectiveness indicator of the RE-AIM framework)	Qualitative analyses of the student citizens assembly proposals, in comparison with the recognized determinants of diet, using the DONE framework	Throughout implementation of the student citizens assembly (5 months)
Transferability indicators (Adoption indicator of the RE-AIM framework)	Aggregated data on the characteristics of non-student members of the mini-public (in terms of gender, age, employer and job description)	Throughout implementation of the student citizens assembly (5 months)
Transferability indicators (Implementation indicator of the RE-AIM framework)	Mini-public expertise, monetary cost of implementing the citizens' assembly, comparisont of actual vs. planned implementation	Throughout implementation of the student citizens assembly (5 months)
Transferability indicators (Maintenance indicator of the RE-AIM framework)	Qualitative evaluation of the actual implementation of the citizens assembly proposals and willingness of USPN representatives to replicate the student citizens' assembly in another location or on another topic (evaluated through individual interviews with USPN representatives)	One year after completion of the student citizens assembly

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in dietary habits	Usual intake of the main food groups, assessed with a short food frequency questionnaire, and comparisons with current dietary recommendations	Before and one month after the student citizens' assembly
Changes in sustainable dietary practices	Sustainable dietary practices (usual intake of plant-based and animal products, consumption of ultra-processed foods, usual intake of organic food, food supply locations, use of a composter, food waste and recycling, meal preparation habits), assessed with the SHED index. A higher score indicates greater sustainable practices.	Before and one month after the student citizens' assembly
Changes in knowledge of diet's environmental impact	Knowledge of diet's environmental impact, assessed with a validated questionnaire. A higher score indicates greater knowledge.	Before and one month after the student citizens' assembly
Changes in citizens' practices	Participation in civic activities (vote, forum, petition signing...), frequency of participation in online and offline political conversation, self-confidence when expressing opinions on diet, trust in the university institution, perceived usefulness of citizens' assemblies, assessed by questionnaire	Before and one month after the student citizens' assembly
Perception of the student citizens' assembly	Motivations for participating in the student citizens' assembly, expectations on the role of this assembly, satisfaction with the proposals of the assembly, perceived quality of deliberations, assessed with an ad-hoc questionnaire	Before and one month after the student citizens' assembly
Academic-related data	Study level (undergraduate, post-graduate, PhD student) and discipline	Before the student citizens' assembly
Changes in dietary habits and eating practices	Changes in the interpretation of the term 'eating well,' understanding of the food system and its environmental impact, dietary habits and eating practices, barriers to sustainable diet, evaluated through semi-structured interviews	Before the student citizens' assembly
Socioeconomic status	Scholarship status	Before the student citizens' assembly
Employment	Employment status and weekly duration of job activities	Before the student citizens' assembly
Demographic characteristics	Gender, accomodation type, commuting time between home and place of study, household cooking facilities	Before the student citizens' assembly

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Website of the student citizens' assembly

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): October 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 23, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): August 30, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 30, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2024
• Last Verified: August 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2024-055

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: Data described in the article, code book, and analytic code can be made available upon request. Researchers of a public institution can submit a collaboration request including their institution and a brief description of their project to the principal investigator. All requests will be reviewed by the steering committee of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No