Comparing Calories at Fast Food Restaurants

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Fast Food Restaurant

• Registration Number: NCT01357434
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

Brief Summary

Rating systems are intended to guide consumer choices. This project will determine if a previously developed scale that evaluates the "healthiness" of a restaurant is correlated with the actual choices consumers make when they patronize the restaurants. The study will also assess whether a restaurant marketed as "healthy" (Subway) rates higher on this scale than another restaurant that makes no such claims (McDonald's). Finally, the investigators will compare the calorie purchases from these two restaurants among youths and their families who eat at each of the restaurants.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2011-05
• Study Start: 2011-05
• Primary Completion: 2011-05
• Study First Submitted: 2011-05-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-05-19
• Study First Posted: 2011-05-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-06-23
• Last Update Posted: 2011-06-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 97

Inclusion Criteria

• 12-21 Year Olds that live in local area
• Like to eat at Subway and McDonald's

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Adolescents	Fast Food Restaurant	Participants 12-21 years old.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Calories Consumed at each Restaurant	Calories will be recorded at two time points within 1-2 weeks	Using purchase receipts and point-of-purchase surveys, we determine how many calories each participant purchases.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UCLA; 🇺🇸 University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States