Cooking HEalthy and Facilitating Early Childhood Development: CHEF-ED Study

Conditions

• Teaching Healthy Cooking Skills to Parents and Their Preschool Children

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - 64 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• CHEF-ED + Food Delivery — BEHAVIORAL
  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 — BEHAVIORAL
  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.

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 19, 2025

Status verified

Jul 2025

Primary completion

Aug 31, 2027

Completion

Aug 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

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.

Primary Outcome Measure

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

Central Contacts

• Sheryl O. Hughes, PhD
  713-798-7095
  [email protected]
• Arely Y. Balderas, BA
  713-798-9175
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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