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Volume 7, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7904 Childhood Obesity & Bariatric Surgery 2017
June 12-13, 2017
June 12-13, 2017 Rome, Italy
& Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
10th International Conference on
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
2nd International Conference on
JOINT EVENT
Improvement in bagged lunches following an intervention in the preschool setting:Arandomized controlled trial
Vered Kaufman-Shriqui1, Drora Fraser2, Yelena Novack2, Natalya Bilenko 2,3, Hillel Vardi2, Zvi Feine4 and Danit R Shahar2
1Ariel University, Israel
2Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
3Ministry of Health, Israel
4American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Israel
More than a third of preschool children's nutritional intake is consumed during school hours. However, few studies have assessed
the quality of bagged lunches sent from home to feed children during the day. A cluster-randomized controlled-trial examining
the effect of a preschool-based comprehensive intervention on nutrition behaviors among low socioeconomic status (LSES) preschool-
aged children was performed. During a full school year, LSES preschoolers (mean age 63 m, 48% boys) and their mothers were
recruited from preschools in a large town in Israel and cluster-randomized to an intervention group (seven preschools, 184 children)
or to a control group (four preschools, 74 children). The intervention children received in school, nutrition education and physical
activity (PA) classes; intervention parents and teachers received healthy nutrition classes. The control group received PA classes
for children only. Family data were obtained by parental interviews. Food and nutrition knowledge testing and observations and
anthropometric measurements were conducted at baseline, at intervention termination and at the end of the school year. Differences
between groups were analyzed while controlling for clustering. Of the 258 children enrolled, 220 (87.6%) completed the six-month
program. Improvement in the quality score of bagged lunches was shown in the intervention group (p<.0001). Intervention group
increased fruit and vegetable consumption and habitual water drinking (p=0.02), and decreased sweet-drinks consumption (p=0.05).
In this study, the bagged lunches prepared at home and sent with the children to their preschools reflected marked changes in parental
feeding behaviors. The six-month follow-up showed that this improvement was sustained.
Biography
Vered Kaufman-Shriqui is a registered Dietitian and an Epidemiologist. She completed her MSc in Nutrition at Hebrew University, and her PhD in Epidemiology
at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is a faculty member in Department of Nutritional Sciences at Ariel University. She has conducted several intervention trials
aimed to reduce childhood obesity, and examined the association of social determinants with maternal chronic conditions. During her research, she focused in
“Developing culturally adopted methods to collect nutritional information”. Her current research focuses on “The effect of social capital and food policies on body
weight and food choices”.
Vered Kaufman-Shriqui et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-045