Warning Labels and College Students' Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake

Diet, Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Warning Labels on Reducing College Students' Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04435145
• Other study ID #: HUM00153805
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 6, 2018
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: June 2020
• Source: University of Michigan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are one of the few dietary items causally linked to the development of obesity and chronic disease. SSB consumption among young adults are particularly concerning, because of the high levels of consumption and the influence of disease risk in later life. College students, particularly freshmen, are a captive audience when it comes to dietary consumption because many of them consume their meals in residential dining halls. We are currently working with Michigan Dining to implement warning labels on SSB fountain dispensers to examine whether carefully tailored signage could alter beverage choices of college students. The current study aims to assess changes in dietary intake before and after the labels are posted, in a representative sample of University of Michigan students who eat at residential dining halls.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1067
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 17 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Currently enrolled student at the University

• Visited one of three large dining halls at least 100 times in the first 1.5 months of the academic year

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diet, Healthy

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Sugar-sweetened beverage warning label
A sugar-sweetened beverage warning label appropriate for the college-aged population was developed and applied to beverage stations at one large campus dining hall

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Michigan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Beverage Intake Questionnaire-15	The primary outcome is the mean servings of sugar-sweetened and non-sugar-sweetened beverages consumed in the past 30 days, as measured by a validated questionnaire	Four months