Recruiting

CHEF-ED

Sponsor:

Baylor College of Medicine

Code:

NCT06940817

Conditions

Teaching Healthy Cooking Skills to Parents and Their Preschool Children

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 64

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

CHEF-ED + Food Delivery

Food Delivery Only

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study aims to test a new online program we developed for parents and their preschool children, called CHEF-ED. CHEF-ED focuses on healthy cooking, parental feeding practices, and involving children in home food preparation.

Conditions

Teaching Healthy Cooking Skills to Parents and Their Preschool Children

Study ID

NCT06940817

Start date

Jun 19, 2025

Status verified date

Jul, 2025

Completion date

Aug 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 64

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Parents/caregivers of preschooler children ages 3 to 5 living in the greater Houston area.
  • Must have access to the Internet through a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.
  • Should be able to read, write, and communicate in English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Parents/caregivers and children who have any kind of food allergies, medical conditions, or dietary restrictions that may affect participation in the program.
  • Parents/caregivers under the age of 18.
  • Parents/caregivers of children with severe developmental delays.

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: CHEF-ED + Food Delivery group

Participants in this arm will receive a one-time delivery of non-perishable basic culinary ingredients and kitchen utensils and access to the CHEF-ED program, which includes weekly online program materials, such as videos, infographics, and recipes sent via text or email over 7 weeks.

active comparator: Food Delivery Only group

Participants in this arm receive a one-time delivery of non-perishable basic culinary ingredients and kitchen utensils but will not have access to the CHEF-ED program during the study period.

no intervention: Control group

Participants in this arm will not receive the healthy cooking ingredients delivery nor will they have access to the CHEF-ED program during the study period.

Interventions

CHEF-ED + Food Delivery

CHEF-ED is a 7-week, digital, video-based parental intervention that teaches healthy cooking practices and an optimal way to involve children in home cooking. Each week features a video, infographics, and recipe content. The content is designed to be integrated into the home food environment without major changes to shopping habits. However, some basic culinary ingredients that are featured may not already be part of participating family pantry stocks. To support participants in effectively learning the healthy cooking strategies, participating families are provided a one-time home food delivery of non-perishable basic culinary ingredients and kitchen utensils, such as cooking oil, spices, whole wheat pasta, low sodium soy sauce, bowls.

Food Delivery Only

The Food Delivery Only intervention involves participants receiving a one-time home food delivery of non-perishable basic culinary ingredients and kitchen utensils, such as cooking oil, spices, whole wheat pasta, low sodium soy sauce, bowls.

Primary outcome measure

  • Child diet quality [ Time Frame: From baseline assessment to the post-intervention assessment. The intervention program is 7 weeks. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sheryl O. Hughes, PhD

713-798-7095shughes@bcm.edu

Arely Y. Balderas, BA

713-798-9175arely.balderas@bcm.edu

Locations

Baylor College of Medicine

Recruiting

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Contacts

Arely Y. Balderas, BA

713-798-9175arely.balderas@bcm.edu

Nilda Micheli, BS

713-798-6737nildam@bcm.edu

Principal Investigator:

Sheryl O. Hughes, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Baylor College of Medicine

Last update posted

Jul 25, 2025

Last verified

Jul, 2025

Keywords

  • Food security
  • Nutrition education
  • Cooking practices
  • Feeding practices
  • Chronic disease

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Baylor College of Medicine on 2025-07-25.