TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and Methods of a Participatory Healthy Eating Intervention for Indigenous Children
T2 - The FRESH Study
AU - Blue Bird Jernigan, Valarie
AU - Taniguchi, Tori
AU - Haslam, Alyson
AU - Williams, Mary B.
AU - Maudrie, Tara L.
AU - Nikolaus, Cassandra J.
AU - Wetherill, Marianna S.
AU - Jacob, Tvli
AU - Love, Charlotte V.
AU - Sisson, Susan
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge and thank the members of the FRESH Study Executive Committee and all who participated in the project: Assistant Chief Raymond Redcorn, David Webb, Melvina Prather, Denise Keene, Michelle Harding, Dana Daylight, Helen Brumley, Shane Rencountre, Margaret Sisk, Jason George, and Jann Hayman. We also thank the teachers, school site managers, cooks, and other stuff for their support of this project. We would like to thank Ms. Gail Boe for leadership in initiating preliminary intervention work. We thank all study participants for their time, knowledge shared, and for their continued commitment to their children's health and wellbeing.
Funding Information:
The study was funded by the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities (5R01MD011266-05). The funding agency did not participate in the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Blue Bird Jernigan, Taniguchi, Haslam, Williams, Maudrie, Nikolaus, Wetherill, Jacob, Love and Sisson.
PY - 2022/2/22
Y1 - 2022/2/22
N2 - Objective: To increase vegetable and fruit intake, reduce body mass index (BMI), and improve parental blood pressure among American Indian families. Design: Randomized, wait-list controlled trial testing a multi-level (environmental, community, family, and individual) multi-component intervention with data collection at baseline and 6 months post-intervention. Setting: Tribally owned and operated Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Participants: American Indian families (at least one adult and one child in a ECE program). A sample size of 168 per group will provide power to detect differences in fruit and vegetable intake. Intervention: The 6-month intervention consisted of a (1) ECE-based nutrition and gardening curriculum; (2) nutrition education and food sovereignty curriculum for adults; and (3) ECE program menu modifications. Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome is increase in fruit and vegetable intake, assessed with a 24-h recall for adults and plate weight assessments for children. Secondary outcomes included objective measures of BMI among adults and children and blood pressure among adults.
AB - Objective: To increase vegetable and fruit intake, reduce body mass index (BMI), and improve parental blood pressure among American Indian families. Design: Randomized, wait-list controlled trial testing a multi-level (environmental, community, family, and individual) multi-component intervention with data collection at baseline and 6 months post-intervention. Setting: Tribally owned and operated Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Participants: American Indian families (at least one adult and one child in a ECE program). A sample size of 168 per group will provide power to detect differences in fruit and vegetable intake. Intervention: The 6-month intervention consisted of a (1) ECE-based nutrition and gardening curriculum; (2) nutrition education and food sovereignty curriculum for adults; and (3) ECE program menu modifications. Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome is increase in fruit and vegetable intake, assessed with a 24-h recall for adults and plate weight assessments for children. Secondary outcomes included objective measures of BMI among adults and children and blood pressure among adults.
KW - American Indian
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - early childhood intervention
KW - gardening intervention
KW - Indigenous food sovereignty
KW - Indigenous knowledge
KW - nutrition intervention
KW - vegetable and fruit intake
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126009750&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2022.790008
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2022.790008
M3 - Article
C2 - 35296044
AN - SCOPUS:85126009750
SN - 2296-2565
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
M1 - 790008
ER -