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NCT Number: NCT02574052

Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Dietary Modification

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

About this study

  • The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake.
  • 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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

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

Treatment and study plan

participants' food choices

Behavioral

just recorded the participants' food choices in the school cafeteria

menu labelling without nutrition education

Behavioral

The investigators provided every participant with a menu labeling without any interpretation and recorded their dietary selections

menu labelling with nutrition education

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Oct 12, 2015
Registry last updated
Oct 12, 2015

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