Nutricity: A Pilot Study to Improve Parental Nutrition Literacy
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 18
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Parental Nutrition Literacy
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this study is to engage parents and their young children (1-5 years of age) using the mobile intervention, Nutricity. Study goals are to increase parental nutrition literacy and improve eating habits of children.
详细描述
Nutricity website: Nutricity is a mobile website that uses communication techniques that break down each section to teach parents and children the nutrition information. The site addresses five components of nutrition literacy:
- ability to comprehend nutrition text
- eating foods in the right portions
- using food labels to make nutrition decisions
- grouping foods into like categories
- choosing between similar foods (consumer skills)
Participants will have three months of free access to Nutricity during this study. They will also be encouraged to set one nutrition goal per week and encouraged to use Nutricity to help attain that goal. Participants will send weekly goals through text message to a number provided by the research team.
There are three phases to this study:
Baseline: Participants will be asked to come to the clinic or research lab 1 time for procedures and assessments that will help the investigator assess nutrition literacy and eligibility.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Parents must be English speaking and must 1) Identify as primary food decision-maker for the home, 2) Have internet access at home and 3) Must have a device for accessing the internet. Smartphones, owned by ~75-92% of the target population, are adequate to satisfy the latter two criteria.
排除标准
- •Overt cognitive or psychiatric illness, 2) Visual impairments that preclude reading survey instruments or using a tablet, 3) Child illness requiring a highly restrictive diet, such as renal disease, celiac disease, etc., 4) Planning to travel internationally during the study, 5) child is a foster child or ward of the state.
结局指标
主要结局
Parental Nutrition Literacy
时间窗: 12 weeks
Measured by the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument
次要结局
- Child Diet Quality(12 weeks)