Testing a new smartphone app (SwapSHOP) to improve the nutritional quality of food shopping

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Public health - behaviour change; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

• Registration Number: ISRCTN13022312
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Oxford

Brief Summary

2024 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38206671/ (added 12/01/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-10-30
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 22 January 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 112

Inclusion Criteria

1. Male or female, aged over 18 years old
2. Willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study
3. English speaking and able to understand the demands of the study
4. Looking for support to improve their diet
5. Own a smartphone (android or iOS), has access to the internet and email account on their phone
6. Willing to download and use a smartphone app to scan and track all their supermarket shopping
7. Responsible for at least some of their household grocery shopping and regularly shop in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda, Morrisons or Iceland (e.g. at least once a week in a physical store or online store)
8. Will scan and record all supermarket food purchases over a baseline 2-week/run-in period

Exclusion Criteria

1. Already on a clinician supervised diet or a restricted diet
2. Are currently using apps to monitor the quality of their food shopping (excluding apps to track and monitor food intake)
3. Currently participating in another study aimed at dietary change or asking them to change the way they shop for food
4. Planning on going away from home (holiday or other) for more than 2 consecutive weeks during the study period

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified