{"id":1920,"date":"2019-06-14T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/?page_id=1920"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:40:28","slug":"sugary-drink-consumption","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/completed-projects\/sugary-drink-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugary Drink Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1920\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1920-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1920-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1920-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h4>Completed Project<\/h4>\n<h1>Community-based Nutrition Research<\/h1>\n<h2>Husky Nutrition On-the-Go: Sugary Drink Reduction<\/h2>\n<p id=\"u17894-2\">Sugar sweetened or sugary beverage consumption and over consumption of 100% juice add unneeded calories to diets of young children, potentially leading to overweight. As children\u2019s diets are extensions of their parents\u2019 behavior, we proposed the implementation of a nutrition education intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavior theoretical mode for behavior change. Parents were the primary agent of change. This integrated projects goals were to: 1) evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention for reducing sugary drink consumption in minority preschool children from low-resource families (research), 2) evaluate the integration of this research-based program in nutrition education activities (extension), and 3) enhance undergraduate cultural competency through a service-learning program (education).<\/p>\n<p id=\"u17894-5\">The research originally proposed using a randomized control group design involving 20 parents of 3-5 year old children at each of 20 early childcare sites or a sample size of 400. Four hundred and eight four parents at 22 sites actually participated. Each site was randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions: a ten-week educational program for either sugary drinks or home food safety (the sham control). Demographics, measures of the understanding of sugar-sweetened beverages, (Beverage Questionnaire), a home food beverage inventory, food security, child-feeding practices, weekend child food intake, and both parent and child height and weight were collected. Undergraduate students delivered an interactive educational program two afternoons per week at pick-up time for ten weeks at each site. Please see the links on the right for more detail on design, instruments, and publications from this study.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ppu17882-4\" class=\"clearfix colelem\">\n<div id=\"pu17893\" class=\"clearfix grpelem\">\n<div id=\"u17893\" class=\"shadow clearfix colelem\">\n<div id=\"u24102-34\" class=\"Link clearfix grpelem\" data-muse-uid=\"U24102\" data-muse-type=\"txt_frame\" data-ibe-flags=\"txtStyleSrc\">\n<p id=\"u24102-32\">Funding Source: USDA\/NRI 2008-55215-19071<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1920-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed Project Community-based Nutrition Research Husky Nutrition On-the-Go: Sugary Drink Reduction Sugar sweetened or sugary beverage consumption and over consumption of 100% juice add unneeded calories to diets of young children, potentially leading to overweight. 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