Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling

Phase 3

Completed

• Conditions: Dietary Modification
• Interventions: Behavioral: participants' food choices; Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education; Behavioral: menu labelling with nutrition education

• Registration Number: NCT02574052
• Lead Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.

Detailed Description

1. The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

2. A pre-post non-controlled study design was implemented in the medical college and was divided into three stages: just recording the dietary selection in the three meals daily, recording the dietary selection with the provision of menu labeling accompanying with or without nutrition education. The investigators adopted photographs-based dietary assessment tools and a mobile phone application 'WeChat' was utilized as the photographs and nutrition knowledge transfer platform. Two professional researchers respectively read the received photographs and calculated participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-10
• Primary Completion: 2014-11
• Study Completion: 2014-12
• Status Verified: 2015-10
• Study First Submitted: 2015-10-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-10-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-10-09
• Study First Posted: 2015-10-12
• Last Update Posted: 2015-10-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• Grade 2012, 2013 undergraduate students and Grade 2013 graduate students

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants who sent the photographs less than six times in any one of the three meals at any stage

  • Participants who did not complete their questionnaires

    • Participants who withdrew from the experiment at any stage

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Behavioral	menu labelling with nutrition education	The whole experiment was divided into three phases with each phase lasting two weeks. First Stage-Behavioral: just record participants' food choices Second Stage-Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education Third Stage- Behavioral; menu labelling with nutrition education
Behavioral	participants' food choices	The whole experiment was divided into three phases with each phase lasting two weeks. First Stage-Behavioral: just record participants' food choices Second Stage-Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education Third Stage- Behavioral; menu labelling with nutrition education
Behavioral	menu labelling without nutrition education	The whole experiment was divided into three phases with each phase lasting two weeks. First Stage-Behavioral: just record participants' food choices Second Stage-Behavioral: menu labelling without nutrition education Third Stage- Behavioral; menu labelling with nutrition education

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Descriptive Name of Scale: Composite outcome measure of calorie (kcal/day), protein(g/day), fat intake (g/day) and carbohydrate intake (g/day) of participants	up to six weeks	Through the receiving photographs the participants took about their three meals, the investigators estimated the calorie content (kcal/day), protein content (g/day), fat content (g/day), carbohydrate content (g/day) participants ate.