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NCT Number: NCT02906410

Dynamic Presentation of Calorie Information

Participants will be asked to select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

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Key information

Conditions

Not Condition-specific

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

The presence or absence of calorie labels on the hypothetical lunch menu will be randomly assigned to participants. Participants will first be randomly assigned to either the numeric label survey or the light label survey, and then within that survey, participants will be randomly assigned to either a control (no label), an item-level label, or an item-level and meal-level label condition.

Participants will select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 18 or older
  • US resident

Exclusion criteria

  • Unable to complete survey on computer

Treatment and study plan

Item-Level Calorie information

Other

Information identifying the calorie content of individual items will be provided, as would be done on a restaurant menu board.

Meal-Level Calorie information

Other

Information from the calorie content of individual items that have been selected by the participant will be dynamically aggregated and presented as a "Total Calories" label on the menu screen.

Primary outcomes

  1. Calories ordered

    Time frame: 5 minutes after presentation of information

    Single survey presentation, measure of calories ordered collected as people select meal

Secondary outcomes

  1. Light category ordered

    Time frame: 5 minutes after presentation of information

    Single survey presentation, measure of what aggregated light the calories ordered would have qualified for. Collected as people select meal

  2. Calories per category

    Time frame: 5 minutes after presentation of information

    Single survey presentation, measure of calories per entree, calories per side, and calories per drink selected, collected as people select meal

Other outcomes

  1. Sequence of items selected

    Time frame: 5 minutes after presentation of information

    Single survey presentation, measure of which items were added (and subtracted) from the meal. Both offers a count of number of items considered and a measure of calories "removed" from meal.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Pennsylvania

Other

Collaborators

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Sep 20, 2016
Registry last updated
Feb 6, 2019

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