Have you ever wondered what exactly is in the foods you and your children eat? Or how these substances might relate to your family’s health?
Have you ever wondered what exactly is in the foods you and your children eat? Or how these substances might relate to your family’s health?
The nonprofit Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute is supporting the development, delivery and evaluation of a new six-week online tutorial for parents of learning disabled children. The tutorial will help parents understand the connections between nutrition and the prevention of health conditions that impact learning and child development.
The course will focus on the nutritional and environmental factors associated with autism, developmental delay and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with food ingredient safety a featured topic of study.
FIHRI is seeking 20 parents of learning disabled children in Hawaii to participate in the tutorial as part of a study to determine whether the curriculum can help families facilitate healthy dietary changes.
Parents selected to participate in the tutorial will be randomly assigned to a “test” or “control” group.
Those assigned to the test group will be required to participate in the first six-week tutorial session. The parents serving in the control group will be offered the opportunity to participate in the tutorial during the second session.
Test and control group participants will be required to take an online diet survey at the same time before and after the first tutorial session.
As each parent finishes their participation in the tutorial, they will receive a stipend of $200 to offset any increased grocery costs that might occur as a result of dietary changes.
Instruction for the tutorial will be provided by Renee Dufault, a retired Food and Drug Administration Public Health Service officer and prominent researcher.
Before being selected to participate in the study, parents must be screened to determine their eligibility. Parents found eligible to participate in the study will be required to sign an informed consent form.
Results of the study might be reported in a journal article, at a scientific meeting or through media.
All participants will be assigned unique user identification numbers for logging on to the tutorial and their identities will remain confidential.
Interested parents can contact Dufault at rdufault@foodingredient.info for their eligibility screening appointment or fill out the contact form online at www.foodingredient.info/parentnutritioncourse.html.