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Parents in comparison and intervention classrooms will receive access to web-based parent resources related to the Eating the Alphabet curriculum (e.g., food of the week fact sheets with recipes and suggestions for use, and coloring pages).",null,{"label":14,"type":15,"description":16,"interventionNames":17},"Healthy Bodies Project Plus (HBP+)","EXPERIMENTAL","Intervention classrooms will receive the Eating the Alphabet curriculum described above for comparison classrooms, in addition to (1) the Healthy Eating curriculum, (2) classroom materials and teacher training designed to improve the classroom food and mealtime environment in ways that increase food acceptance, and (3) parent\u002Fcaregiver education on responsive food parenting.",[18,19,20,21],"Behavioral: Healthy Eating Curriculum","Behavioral: Improving the Classroom Food and Mealtime Environment","Behavioral: Parent Education","Behavioral: ECE Food Acceptance Training",[23,28,32,36],{"type":24,"name":25,"description":26,"armGroupLabels":27,"otherNames":12},"BEHAVIORAL","Healthy Eating Curriculum","The Healthy Eating (HE) curriculum is designed to provide children with skills needed to develop healthy eating habits. Each lesson builds upon the overall goal of creating a healthy restaurant. Children are taught to identify differences between GO and WHOA foods, recognize the five food groups, and learn to make healthy food choices.",[14],{"type":24,"name":29,"description":30,"armGroupLabels":31,"otherNames":12},"Improving the Classroom Food and Mealtime Environment","HBP+ Classrooms will receive additional sensory activities for each lesson (e.g., posters, food models, games) designed to improve the classroom food environment and provide repeated exposure to activities and messages about fruits and vegetables. Teachers in HBP+ classrooms will be provided with additional training on strategies shown to increase food acceptance in preschool children (e.g., modeling, encouraging children to try foods without coercion). In addition, HBP+ classrooms will include \"tasting charts\" that children will stamp to indicate their liking for each food each week.",[14],{"type":24,"name":33,"description":34,"armGroupLabels":35,"otherNames":12},"Parent Education","Parents in intervention classrooms will be given access to 8 web-based lessons on food parenting and responsive parenting. Topics include: establishing mealtime routines, shopping healthy on a budget; modeling of healthy eating behaviors; addressing picky eating in children; structuring low-stress mealtime environments; the division of responsibility in feeding, and portion control.",[14],{"type":24,"name":37,"description":38,"armGroupLabels":39,"otherNames":12},"ECE Food Acceptance Training","HBP+ early childhood educators (ECEs) will be asked to complete an online, self-paced course on increasing food acceptance in preschool children. Topics will include: repeated exposure to foods; modeling of healthy eating behaviors; addressing picky eating in children; structuring low-stress mealtime environments; and the division of responsibility in feeding.",[14],[41],{"name":42,"affiliation":43,"role":44},"Lori A Francis, Ph.D.","Penn State University; Professor","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[46,50],{"name":42,"role":47,"phone":48,"phoneExt":12,"email":49},"CONTACT","814-863-0213","lfrancis@psu.edu",{"name":51,"role":47,"phone":52,"phoneExt":12,"email":53},"Regina H Lozinski, M.S.","814-865-0045","rmh215@psu.edu",[55],{"facility":56,"status":57,"city":58,"state":59,"zip":60,"country":61,"countryCode":62,"cosmosGeoPoint":63,"geoPoint":68,"contacts":69},"The Pennsylvania State University","RECRUITING","University Park","Pennsylvania","16802","United States","US",{"type":64,"coordinates":65},"Point",[66,67],-77.85639,40.80201,{"lat":67,"lon":66},[70],{"name":71,"role":47,"phone":48,"phoneExt":12,"email":72},"Lori A Francis, PhD","laf169@psu.edu",{"type":44,"investigatorFullName":74,"investigatorTitle":75,"investigatorAffiliation":5,"oldNameTitle":12,"oldOrganization":12},"Lori Francis","Professor of Biobehavioral Health","100514350","increasing-food-literacy-in-preschoolers-to-reduce-obesity-risk-100514350",false,"NCT05977348","Increasing Food Literacy in Preschoolers to Reduce Obesity Risk","Increasing Food Literacy as a Means of Increasing Preschool Children's Food Acceptance and Reducing Obesity Risk","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Preschool children enrolled in participating centers\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Severe food allergies that prevent children from consuming project foods\n* Presence of a developmental or sensory disability that affects food intake and\u002For learning\n* Lack of English fluency (children and caregivers)\n* Children not regularly present during days\u002Ftimes that intervention lessons are delivered\n* Parents who are not involved in feeding\u002Fpreparing meals for children at least 50% of the time",true,"ALL","3 Years","6 Years",{"count":88,"type":89},770,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[92],"NA","The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of a nutrition education program on preschool children's food literacy and food acceptance, and to examine the added influence of a healthy eating curriculum and parent education on children's food knowledge and healthful food choices. The project will be evaluated with 450 children ages 3 to 5 years in center-based childcare programs serving predominantly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-eligible families in Pennsylvania. Outcomes for children who receive the added healthy eating curriculum will be compared to children in classrooms that only receive the nutrition education program.",[95,96,97,98],"Food Preferences","Food Selection","Eating, Healthy","Obesity, Childhood",[100,101,102,103],"Food literacy","Healthy growth","Child Development","Food Acceptance","2025-03-12",{"date":106,"type":107},"2025-03-17","ACTUAL",{"date":109,"type":107},"2023-10-03",{"date":111,"type":89},"2026-08",{"name":5,"class":6},1]