Joshua M Rothman, Nadir Bilici, Blake Mergler, Ryan Schumacher, Tara Mataraza-Desmond, Maddy Booth, Marlene Olshan, Melissa Bailey, Maria Mascarenhas, William Duffy, Senbagam Virudachalam, Horace M DeLisser
A Culinary Medicine Elective for Clinically Experienced Medical Students: A Pilot Study
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
study evaluated simple environmental intervention called water schools lower austria providing free refillable water bottles educational material nonrandomised controlled cluster trial three measurements baseline t0 intervention 9 months t1 1year followup t2 halfday elementary schools lower austria austria thirdgrade pupils twentytwo schools intervention group ig thirtytwo schools control group cg participated study data analysed 569 598 pupils ig 545 613 cg depending time measurement consumption tap water increased ig baseline t1 decreased t2 similar cg statistically significant difference time trend ig cg similar results seen tap water consumption mornings proportion children drank tap water school mornings increased significantly baseline t1 ig compared cg p 0020 difference changes time occurred groups proportion pupils drinking approximately one bottle tap water school mornings children ig also cg drank tap water 1 school year beginning measurement drinking habits cg may intervention enough bring changes initiate projects