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Table 2 The overview of GReat-Child trial

From: Intervention on whole grain with healthy balanced diet to manage childhood obesity (GReat-Child™trial): study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial

Components

Contents

Classroom nutrition education

Six 30-min nutrition education classes

On fortnightly basis

Employed simplified “Food Guide Pyramid” and “visual plate model”

Module included:

An overall food pyramid education

Energy balance education

A visual plate model

An overall whole grain education

Source and sampling of wholegrain foods

Reading labels

Twelve-week school delivery of wholegrain foods

Provide opportunities for children to experience and accept wholegrain foods. On daily basis, during school-break time

Selected wholegrain food: wholegrain bread, wholegrain ready-to-eat cereals and wholegrain biscuits

Family involvement

A session of individual diet counselling after the baseline data collection and prior to 12-week intervention

Employed simplified “Food Guide Pyramid” and “visual plate model”

Parents to increase the availability of wholegrain foods and balanced diet at home

Encourage parental role modelling for consuming wholegrain foods and healthy diet

Mother was invited to attend an in-depth interview session using a semi-structured telephone interview, at the conclusion of the GReat-Child Trial (9th month), to identify the obstacles they had encounter in increasing the wholegrain consumption