Nutrition Education and e-Texting to Increase Access to Fresh Produce

Healthy Eating Clinical Trial

— (NEAT)  

Official title:

Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market With e-Marketing

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04065646
• Other study ID #: HHCNEAT2015
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 23, 2015
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Hispanic Health Council, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing , uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology.

Description:

The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology. Thus, the study combines key elements that have been deemed necessary for increasing produce intake among low income communities. The goal of the NEAT study is to assess the impact of a texting-based social marketing campaign on SNAP-Ed participants' access to and purchase of fresh produce on a recently launched mobile produce market, and their subsequent produce intake. Objectives include: 1) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on purchase of fruits and vegetables; 2) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on consumption of fruits and vegetables; and 3) Assess the effectiveness of coupon distribution on coupon redemption at a mobile produce market. The NEAT design will be a randomized controlled trial using a pre-post assessment comparing change in behavior. Both intervention and control groups will receive SNAP-Ed education as currently delivered by the Hispanic Health Council. The intervention group will receive additional promotional text messaging related to use of the mobile market. The control group will receive text messaging about free activities taking place at the Hartford Public Library and other community locations. Participants will be interviewed via phone at baseline, then randomized to intervention and control groups, and re-interviewed again 6 weeks after they start receiving the text messages, which it will be 2 weeks after the one-month texting period ends.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• SNAP eligible participants with children under 5 years old living at home.

• Living in Hartford, CT.

• Having a cell phone with unlimited smart phone data plans.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not living in Hartford Less than 18 years old

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Eating

Intervention

Other:
• Mobile

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sofia Segura-Pérez	Cornell University, Yale University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in consumption of fruits	Measured with one question about daily consumption of fruits from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.	Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Primary	Change in consumption of vegetables.	Measured with a one question from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.	Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Primary	Change in fruits eating behaviors Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables	Measured with a readiness 5 item continuous scale item for fruits from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.	Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Primary	Change in vegetables eating behaviors. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables	Measured with a 5 item continuous scale from vegetables from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.	Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Primary	Change in amount of money spent on fruits and vegetables.	self-reported amount of money spent on fresh produce per month.	Baseline and at 6 week follow up
Primary	Change in amount of money spent on fruits.	self-reported amount of money spent on fruit per week.	Baseline and at 6 week follow up
Primary	Change in amount of money spent on vegetables.	self-reported amount of money spent on vegetables per week.	Baseline and at 6 week follow up
Primary	Change in self reported usage of the Hartford Mobile Market for buying fresh produce	self-reported participant's usage of mobile market (yes/no)	baseline and at 6 weeks follow up
Secondary	Participant utilization of coupons	Based on one yes/no question about coupon redemption	6 week follow up
Secondary	Participant's satisfaction with e-texting messages (likeness)	Self reported satisfaction with nutrition messages using a 5- likert scale (like it very much to dislike it very much)	6 weeks follow up
Secondary	Participant's assessment of usefulness of the messages	Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.	6 weeks follow up
Secondary	Participant's assessment of usefulness of the coupons	Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.	6 week follow up

External Links

•   The NEAT Trial