Mobile Goal-setting Intervention to Improve Vegetable Intake Among Young College Students

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diet, Healthy

• Registration Number: NCT04242693
• Lead Sponsor: Indiana University

Brief Summary

This study used a two-group pre-posttest experimental design. After completing a background survey, participants used their smartphones to uploaded photos and/or descriptions of their meals to an online platform for three days. In addition, those in the intervention group were asked to use a checklist to count the number of times they ate red/orange vegetables and to set a goal to eat one more time the next day. The dependent variable was a measure of eating behavior-an estimate (number of times/day) of red/orange vegetable intake on that day based on review of uploaded photos and descriptions. Those in the intervention group, who were asked to use a checklist to count their red/orange vegetable intake and set a goal to eat one more the next day, improved their vegetable intake.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-02-18
• Primary Completion: 2018-04-25
• Study Completion: 2018-04-25
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-01-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-01-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-01-27
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 281

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 18 and above
• Undergraduate at the university
• Currently lived in a dorm
• Owned a smartphone
• Had internet access on their smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

• Already part of a study to change their eating behaviors

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Red/orange vegetable intake	Three days	Number of times participants consumed red/orange vegetables

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Indiana University; 🇺🇸 Bloomington, Indiana, United States