Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling

October 9, 2015 updated by: Kaimeng Kong, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling With or Without Nutrition

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

  1. The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake.
  2. A pre-post non-controlled study design was implemented in the medical college and was divided into three stages: just recording the dietary selection in the three meals daily, recording the dietary selection with the provision of menu labeling accompanying with or without nutrition education. The investigators adopted photographs-based dietary assessment tools and a mobile phone application 'WeChat' was utilized as the photographs and nutrition knowledge transfer platform. Two professional researchers respectively read the received photographs and calculated participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

120

Phase

  • Phase 3

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Grade 2012, 2013 undergraduate students and Grade 2013 graduate students

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants who sent the photographs less than six times in any one of the three meals at any stage

    • Participants who did not complete their questionnaires

      • Participants who withdrew from the experiment at any stage

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Behavioral

The whole experiment was divided into three phases with each phase lasting two weeks.

First Stage-Behavioral: just record participants' food choices Second Stage-Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education Third Stage- Behavioral; menu labelling with nutrition education
Behavioral: participants' food choices
just recorded the participants' food choices in the school cafeteria
Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education
The investigators provided every participant with a menu labeling without any interpretation and recorded their dietary selections
Behavioral: menu labelling with nutrition education
The investigators not only sent a menu labeling to every participant, but also delivered nutrition education to participants by providing them with nutrition and health knowledge through WeChat daily.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Descriptive Name of Scale: Composite outcome measure of calorie (kcal/day), protein(g/day), fat intake (g/day) and carbohydrate intake (g/day) of participants
Time Frame: up to six weeks
Through the receiving photographs the participants took about their three meals, the investigators estimated the calorie content (kcal/day), protein content (g/day), fat content (g/day), carbohydrate content (g/day) participants ate.
up to six weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Yexuan Tao, PH.D, M.D, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

October 1, 2014

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 7, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 9, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

October 12, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

October 12, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 9, 2015

Last Verified

October 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • XHEC-C-2014-094

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