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NCT Number: NCT04065646

Nutrition Education and e-Texting to Increase Access to Fresh Produce

The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing , uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy Eating

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology. Thus, the study combines key elements that have been deemed necessary for increasing produce intake among low income communities. The goal of the NEAT study is to assess the impact of a texting-based social marketing campaign on SNAP-Ed participants' access to and purchase of fresh produce on a recently launched mobile produce market, and their subsequent produce intake. Objectives include: 1) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on purchase of fruits and vegetables; 2) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on consumption of fruits and vegetables; and 3) Assess the effectiveness of coupon distribution on coupon redemption at a mobile produce market. The NEAT design will be a randomized controlled trial using a pre-post assessment comparing change in behavior. Both intervention and control groups will receive SNAP-Ed education as currently delivered by the Hispanic Health Council. The intervention group will receive additional promotional text messaging related to use of the mobile market. The control group will receive text messaging about free activities taking place at the Hartford Public Library and other community locations. Participants will be interviewed via phone at baseline, then randomized to intervention and control groups, and re-interviewed again 6 weeks after they start receiving the text messages, which it will be 2 weeks after the one-month texting period ends.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • SNAP eligible participants with children under 5 years old living at home.
  • Living in Hartford, CT.
  • Having a cell phone with unlimited smart phone data plans.

Exclusion criteria

  • Not living in Hartford Less than 18 years old

Treatment and study plan

Mobile

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in consumption of fruits

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

    Measured with one question about daily consumption of fruits from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.

  2. Change in consumption of vegetables.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

    Measured with a one question from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.

  3. Change in fruits eating behaviors Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

    Measured with a readiness 5 item continuous scale item for fruits from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.

  4. Change in vegetables eating behaviors. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

    Measured with a 5 item continuous scale from vegetables from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.

  5. Change in amount of money spent on fruits and vegetables.

    Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up

    self-reported amount of money spent on fresh produce per month.

  6. Change in amount of money spent on fruits.

    Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up

    self-reported amount of money spent on fruit per week.

  7. Change in amount of money spent on vegetables.

    Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up

    self-reported amount of money spent on vegetables per week.

  8. Change in self reported usage of the Hartford Mobile Market for buying fresh produce

    Time frame: baseline and at 6 weeks follow up

    self-reported participant's usage of mobile market (yes/no)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Participant utilization of coupons

    Time frame: 6 week follow up

    Based on one yes/no question about coupon redemption

  2. Participant's satisfaction with e-texting messages (likeness)

    Time frame: 6 weeks follow up

    Self reported satisfaction with nutrition messages using a 5- likert scale (like it very much to dislike it very much)

  3. Participant's assessment of usefulness of the messages

    Time frame: 6 weeks follow up

    Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.

  4. Participant's assessment of usefulness of the coupons

    Time frame: 6 week follow up

    Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sofia Segura-Pérez

Other

Collaborators

  • Cornell University
  • Yale University

Registry information

Official study title

Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market With e-Marketing

Acronym: (NEAT)

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Aug 22, 2019
Registry last updated
Aug 22, 2019

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