Food Survey, Curbside, Remote APPs SCFI (FoodSCRAPPSCFI)

An Innovative, Accessible, and Flexible Approach for Household Food Waste Measurement - SCFI

The proposed research will create accurate and standardized household food waste measurement technologies that foster serial and longitudinal assessments as well as confident and convenient one-time measurement. The investigators propose the SCFI field study where participants simultaneously deploy 3 measurement approaches (1) retrospective surveys (2) curbside audits, and (3) the FoodImage smartphone app.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Nutrition Sciences; Climate; Recycling; Waste Management

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 57

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Louisiana
    • Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70808
      • Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  • Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
      • Ohio State University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants will be from the greater Columbus, OH and Baton Rouge, LA areas.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or Female, age 18-64 years
• Willing and able to store household food waste for curbside pickup by a third-party waste pickup company
• Internet or Wi-Fi availability to complete online surveys
• Ownership of an IPhone 9s or later, operable Apple ID, password, and email address that they are willing and able to use to collect data during the study. Subject acknowledges data usage and associated charges are a result of study
• Willing to complete all study procedures and adhere to study visit timelines

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not willing to adhere to study procedures and study visit timelines
• Any condition or circumstance that in the judgement of the PI could interfere with study participation

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
SCFI; SCFI participants will complete a survey once per week for three consecutive weeks. They will participate in training for the FoodImage app and deploy it the last two weeks of their study period. During these last two weeks, these participants will also have waste collected on designated days by a waste pickup contractor.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Household Food Waste	Weight	1 week
Household Food Waste	Energy (kcal)	1 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
• Collaborators: Martin, Corby, K., M.D.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: John W Apolzan, PhD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 10, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 19, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): November 19, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 14, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 19, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 27, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 10, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 5, 2024
• Last Verified: December 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: PBRC 2023-007 B

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: All IPD that underlie results in a publication after a DTA with the institution. Please provide a research question.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

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