Plain English Summary
Not provided at time of registration
Trial website
Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Laurence Moore
ORCID ID
Contact details
Cardiff Institute of Society Health and Ethics
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
CF10 3AT
United Kingdom
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MooreL1@cf.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Evaluation of Free School Breakfast Initiative: a randomised controlled trial
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Provision of free school breakfasts will prospectively predict improved dietary behaviours, cognitive performance, positive attitudes to eating healthy breakfasts and school attendance.
Ethics approval
Cardiff University Social Science Ethics Committee
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Schools
Trial type
Quality of life
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Condition
Nutritional health behaviours and cognitive performance
Intervention
Provision of free school breakfast versus no free breakfast
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Cognitive performance
2. Dietary behavours
3. Attitudes to eating healthy breakfasts
4. School attendance
Outcomes assessed at baseline and 12 month follow up
Secondary outcome measures
Uptake of initiative
Overall trial start date
01/09/2004
Overall trial end date
31/08/2007
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Primary school children in schools eligible to receive free school breakfasts in 9 LEAs across Wales. The majority of data collection will be conducted with years 5/6 but parents of a random sample of younger children will be asked to provide responses to questionnaires.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
120 schools (approximately 5000 for main part of study)
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Participants not meeting the above inclusion criteria
2. Children with special educational needs will be excluded from testing at discretion of teaching staff
Recruitment start date
01/09/2004
Recruitment end date
31/08/2007
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Cardiff University
Cardiff
CF10 3AT
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Welsh Assembly Government (UK)
Sponsor details
National Assembly for Wales
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Welsh Assembly Government (UK) - Contract number 266/2003 (extension)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2007 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17888158
2010 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602868
2015 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109287
Publication citations
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Protocol
Moore L, Moore GF, Tapper K, Lynch R, Desousa C, Hale J, Roberts C, Murphy S, Free breakfasts in schools: design and conduct of a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative in Wales [ISRCTN18336527]., BMC Public Health, 2007, 7, 258, doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-258.
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Results
Murphy S, Moore GF, Tapper K, Lynch R, Clarke R, Raisanen L, Desousa C, Moore L, Free healthy breakfasts in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy intervention in Wales, UK., Public Health Nutr, 2011, 14, 2, 219-226, doi: 10.1017/S1368980010001886.
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Results
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act, A cross-sectional observational study of the nutritional intake of UK primary school children from deprived and non-deprived backgrounds: implications for school breakfast schemes, 2015 , 12, 86, doi: 10.1186/s12966-015-0238-9.