Development and Evaluation of the T.E.A.C.H. Study: A Randomized Control Trial
Development and Evaluation of the T.E.A.C.H. Study: A Randomized Control Trial
NCT ID: NCT06926907 Phase: NA Status: COMPLETED Enrollment: 95 Completion: 2024-07-30
Conditions
Child Obesity
Interventions
The Teacher Education and Classroom Habits (T.E.A.C.H.) Program
Summary
Using a randomized control design, this study seeks to develop and evaluate a nutrition intervention to increase Montessori teachers' nutrition knowledge, nutrition self-efficacy, nutrition teaching self-efficacy and cultural food competence to improve teachers' eating behaviors, nutrition teaching practices, classroom food practices, and teacher-parent communication. This study will examine the feasibility and efficacy of a nutrition intervention for teachers which will include a nutrition education program via an online platform and hands-on Montessori-based curriculum to teach nutrition in the classroom. Teachers from multiple schools will be recruited using the public national Montessori listserv. This study will enhance teachers' nutrition knowledge which may increase their nutrition teaching practices and improve their personal nutrition habits. Improving teachers' personal and classroom nutrition practices may improve teachers' personal health outcomes and may positively impact their students through modeling of healthy behaviors and improving the classroom food environment.
Primary Outcome
Change from Baseline in the mean Nutrition Knowledge at 12 week follow-up