Healthy Eating Education for Latinos

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Blood Pressure; Diet Habit; Obesity; Diet, Healthy; Psychological
• Interventions: Behavioral: Culturally tailored healthy eating advice; Behavioral: Standard healthy eating advice

• Registration Number: NCT04724382
• Lead Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

Brief Summary

This intervention aims to evaluate the efficacy of a pilot educational intervention with deep-structure cultural tailoring for Latino ethnic groups on diet quality compared to general, surface-level healthy-eating messages.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-04-29
• Study First Submitted: 2021-01-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-01-22
• Study First Posted: 2021-01-26
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-22
• Study Completion: 2021-09-22
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-24
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 76

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 25-65 y/o
• Self-reported Hispanic/Latino heritage
• Able to understand and answer questions in Spanish or English
• Living in the Boston, MA metro area for the past 6 months and not planning to move in the next 6 months
• Has a cellphone with the capacity of receiving text messages and gives consent for the Study to text this number as part of the intervention

Exclusion Criteria

• Younger than 25y or older than 65y
• Not Hispanic/Latino heritage
• Has condition or impairment that affects mental, cognitive, or memory abilities; such as Alzheimer's disease or stroke
• Has been diagnosed with cancer, diabetes (type 1 or 2), heart condition, major stomach condition (examples: coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke or stroke, allergies, or severe diet restrictions)
• Does not understand Spanish or English
• Pregnant
• Under the care of an institution
• Living in another state outside of Massachusetts or planning to move in less than 6 months
• No cellphone with text capabilities (or cannot be used to receive texts from the Study)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Culturally tailored healthy eating advice	Intervention group consisting of culturally-tailored healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase). A reinforcement phase of 2-months will follow to repeat the text messages.
Control	Standard healthy eating advice	Control group consisting of general healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase). A reinforcement phase of 2-months will follow to repeat the text messages.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in diet quality score	4 months	Determine the change in score of short diet quality screener (range 18-54; from lowest to highest quality)
Changes in diet habits	4 months	Determine the change in the frequency of dietary behaviors (percent)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in attitude for eating: attitudes scale	4 months	Determine the change in the score of the attitudes scale (range 0-20; with positive and negative subscales for more attitudes towards healthy eating)
Changes in reasons for eating: reasons scale	4 months	Determine the change in the score of the reasons scale (range 0-15; fewer to more reasons to eat healthy)
Changes in diet satisfaction: diet satisfaction scale	4 months	Determine the change in the score of the Diet Satisfaction Questionnaire (DSat-45) (range 45-225; from lowest to highest satisfaction) and its summed seven subscales (ranges 5-40

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States