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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04492592
JUS Media? Programme: A Food-Focused Media Literacy Intervention for Americanized Adolescents and Mothers Globally
The J(Amaican and) U(Nited) S(Tates) Media? Programme: A Food-Focused Media Literacy Intervention for Americanized Adolescents and Mothers Globally
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The Western diet is common in the United States and has a lot of salt, sugar, and fat. Modern globalization has shifted eating habits in many countries toward this unhealthy Western diet. For example, U.S. cable TV in other countries promotes this Western diet through advertisements for junk foods and sugary drinks. This is a major concern because experimental research studies show that seeing food advertising while watching TV leads to eating more food afterwards. Research studies also show that people who watch a lot of TV tend to think that junk food is not that harmful.
Researchers now believe that some people living outside the U.S. are drawn to the U.S. culture and lifestyle and can become "Americanized" through a process called remote acculturation. These Americanized people in other countries such as Jamaica are mostly teenagers, but sometimes also adults. Americanized people outside the United States are even more likely to adopt the unhealthy Western diet even though they have never lived in the United States. In research the investigators did before getting this grant, they showed that Americanized youth and mothers in Jamaica watched more hours of U.S. cable daily and also ate more unhealthy food. This led them to develop a new healthy eating education program for Americanized families in Jamaica that highlighted the role of U.S. media - the "J(amaican) U(nited) S(tates) Media? Programme". The JUS Media? Programme teaches young people and mothers to question the health messages in food advertising on U.S. cable TV so that they can be smarter and healthier consumers. For example, the JUS Media? Programme covers the recommended food guidelines in Jamaica and teaches adolescents and their mothers the principles of media literacy, such as to think about "who is the source of this message?" "what do they want you to do?" and "what information is missing?". Finally, the JUS Media? Programme teaches participants to use these media literacy principles to challenge unhealthy food advertisements by creating smart, funny parody versions called subvertisements.
In this project,the investigators evaluated how well the JUS Media? Programme worked for 7th graders and their mothers in Jamaica. About 30 adolescents and their mothers got a 2-session workshop, another 30 families got the workshop and text messages, and another 30 families did not get any part of the program.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion criteria:
• 7th grader enrolled in the participating schools and present at school on the days of recruitment.
Exclusion criteria for each adolescent or mother seeking to enroll:
- mother/student was not born in Jamaica
- mother/student is not a Jamaican citizen
- mother/student is a citizen (including dual citizen) of the United States
- mother/student has not lived in Jamaica for the past 15 years (mother) or 8 years (student)
- mother and student do not live together
- mother has been primary guardian for <5 years
- study screening scores show no U.S. TV usage or no affinity for the U.S. culture, and very low junk food consumption
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Workshop Only
2 session weekend face:face workshop for adolescent-mother pairs
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SMS/Texting
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Experimental: Workshop + SMS/Texting
2 session weekend face:face workshop for adolescent-mother pairs followed by 8 weeks of supplementary text messages (NOTE: there was no 'SMS/texting-only' arm of this study)
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SMS/Texting
Workshop
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No Intervention: Control
No intervention provided.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Changes in Dietary Intake Using a 24-Hour Recall Method
Time Frame: 4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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24-Hour Recall.
Each participant reported detailed information on all foods and beverages consumed in the previous 24 hours via structured interviews with open-ended responses over the phone, and reported dietary intake was coded into coded for the presence (1) or absence (0) of fruits, raw vegetables, cooked vegetables, fats/oils, and sugary foods/beverages (aligning with the major national food groups of the population studied).
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4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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CHANGE IN STAGE OF CHANGE TOWARDS HEALTHY EATING
Time Frame: 4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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A stages of change measure of healthy eating (Wright et al., 2015) was adapted to measure participants' adherence to 5 additional food-based dietary guidelines of the Jamaica Ministry of Health.
Participants reported their adherence to each dietary guideline using a 1-6 likert type scale ranging from 1 "precontemplation stage (No, and I do not intend to [insert wording from guideline]...in the next 6 months" to 6 "total abstinence (I do not consume...[insert wording from guideline)."
Higher scores on this scale represent being closer to one's healthy eating goal.
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4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
CHANGE IN FOOD-FOCUSED MEDIA LITERACY
Time Frame: 4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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Food-focused media literacy was measured with a 14-item scale (Powell & Gross, 2018).
Participants responded on a 4-point likert type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree).
Higher scores on this scale represent higher food-focused media literacy.
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4 measurement points: baseline, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 17-20 weeks (study ended at this final timepoint).
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Collaborators and Investigators
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 17182
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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