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Attitudes and Understanding of Plant Sterol Claims on Food Labels

NCT ID: NCT01932840

Last Updated: 2013-08-30

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1017 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-09-30

Study Completion Date

2011-10-31

Brief Summary

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Daily consumption of plant sterols have been demonstrated to lower blood cholesterol. The Canadian government has recently allowed plant sterols to be added to certain foods and has also approved a disease risk reduction claim to be allowed on products containing plant sterols. However, it is unknown how Canadian consumers respond to plant sterol claims.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and understanding of different types of plant sterol claims on food labels

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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General Population Consumer Research

Keywords

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attitudes and understanding of plant sterol claims general Canadian population

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Canadian Consumer Monitor Panel

Canadian Consumer Monitor Panel is an online panel which answer surveys every 8-10 weeks about diet and health

Mock package questionnaire

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Within a online questionnaire we exposed participants randomly to 4 mock margarine packages differing only by the claim it carried and asked participants to answer several questions on attitudes and understanding after each mock package.

Interventions

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Mock package questionnaire

Within a online questionnaire we exposed participants randomly to 4 mock margarine packages differing only by the claim it carried and asked participants to answer several questions on attitudes and understanding after each mock package.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Primary grocery shoppers
* Canadian adults between the ages 20 to 69 years

Exclusion Criteria

* Did not have an active email address or access to internet
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

69 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Advance Foods and Materials Network

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Toronto

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mary R. L'Abbé

Earle W. McHenry Professor and Chair, Department of Nutritional Sciences

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mary R L'Abbé, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Toronto

Locations

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University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Other Identifiers

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AFMnet-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id