PALS for Nutrition Education

Can the Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) Serve as a Better Model for Nutrition Education Than Other Online-based Educational Material?

The overall goal of this inquiry is to determine whether PALS is more effective than comparable online resources at educating patients in the outpatient clinic setting about nutrition. Participants will be randomly assigned to view either a PALS article or WebMD article on the same nutrition topic. Participants will then fill out a post-survey to assess knowledge uptake and attitudes regarding healthy eating.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Nutrition Disorders
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Educational Tool, PALS; Other: WebMD

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10021
      • Weill Cornell Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient ≥ 18 years of age.
• Ability to speak and read in English.
• Passing the screener - Mini-Mental Status Examination.
• Patient at WCIMA clinic on Upper East Side of Manhattan, NY.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-English speakers
• Inability to read in English
• Being younger than 18
• Not passing the screener
• Not a patient at WCIMA clinic on Upper East Side of Manhattan, NY.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Arm 1 - PALS; The Patient Activated Learning System (Palsforhealth.com)	Other: Educational Tool, PALS; The Patient Activated Learning System is a free, health education platform.
Experimental: Arm 2 - WebMD; WebMD.com	Other: WebMD; WebMD is a widely used educational platform for health information.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Knowledge, as measured by assessment questions on the nutrition information provided	Day 1, Immediately after reading article

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
E-health usability, as measured by questions from the Kelly et al. scale	Questions to understand the user's understanding, preference and trust of the information based on a 5-point likert scale with 5 being strongly agree in favor.	Day 1, Immediately after reading article

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Monika Safford, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 12, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 16, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): March 16, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 10, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 10, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): December 12, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 17, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 16, 2021
• Last Verified: March 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Nutrition Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 19-11021133

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No