Building on a Point-of-purchase Intervention to Encourage Healthy Food Choices

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

Get a concise snapshot of the trial, including recruitment status, study phase, enrollment targets, and key timeline milestones.

Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2672 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-09-30

Study Completion Date

2013-05-31

Brief Summary

Review the sponsor-provided synopsis that highlights what the study is about and why it is being conducted.

This study builds on the framework of a previously implemented color-coded food labeling intervention in a hospital cafeteria by testing the incremental effectiveness of providing employees with individual feedback and incentives for increasing healthy purchases in a 3-arm randomized controlled trial. The investigators hypothesize that employees assigned to receive feedback will increase healthy purchases more than employees who receive no contact and that employees who receive feedback plus incentives will increase healthy purchases more than those who receive feedback alone.

Related Clinical Trials

Explore similar clinical trials based on study characteristics and research focus.

Behavioral Economics to Implement Nutrition Ranking in Food Pantries

NCT05854212

Food Insecurity Dietary Quality Behavioral Economics +1 more

NOT_YET_RECRUITING NA

Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees

NCT00147927

Health Behavior

COMPLETED NA

Behavioral Economics to Implement a Traffic Light Nutrition Ranking System: Study 2

NCT06298253

Food Insecurity Implementation Science Diet, Healthy +1 more

RECRUITING NA

Behavioral Economic Interventions at Food Pantries

NCT02403882

Food Selection

UNKNOWN NA

A Trial of Traffic Light Labeling With Behavioral Nudges and a Healthy Recipe Database to Increase Selection of Healthier Foods in Client-choice Food Pantries

NCT04243252

Food Selection

TERMINATED NA

Detailed Description

Dive into the extended narrative that explains the scientific background, objectives, and procedures in greater depth.

Conditions

See the medical conditions and disease areas that this research is targeting or investigating.

Food Labeling

Study Design

Understand how the trial is structured, including allocation methods, masking strategies, primary purpose, and other design elements.

Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

Review each arm or cohort in the study, along with the interventions and objectives associated with them.

Feedback only

Subjects receive feedback letters about the proportion of green, yellow, and red purchases in the cafeteria per month with comparisons to "all employees" and to the "healthiest employees eaters"

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Feedback letters

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects receive feedback letters about the proportion of green, yellow, and red purchases in the cafeteria per month with comparisons to "all employees" and to the "healthiest employees eaters"

Feedback plus incentives

Subjects receive feedback letters plus small incentives to increase healthy (green-labeled) purchases in the next month

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Feedback plus incentives

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects receive feedback letters plus small incentives to increase healthy (green-labeled) purchases in the next month

Control group

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Learn about the drugs, procedures, or behavioral strategies being tested and how they are applied within this trial.

Feedback letters

Subjects receive feedback letters about the proportion of green, yellow, and red purchases in the cafeteria per month with comparisons to "all employees" and to the "healthiest employees eaters"

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Feedback plus incentives

Subjects receive feedback letters plus small incentives to increase healthy (green-labeled) purchases in the next month

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Check the participation requirements, including inclusion and exclusion rules, age limits, and whether healthy volunteers are accepted.

Inclusion Criteria

* Employee at Massachusetts General Hospital who uses a cafeteria debit card to pay for cafeteria purchases

Exclusion Criteria

* Employees who do not have a cafeteria debit card
* Employees with cafeteria debit card but who use it fewer than 3 times a month for the 3 months prior to start of trial

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes