Dismantling the U.S. Social Norm of the "Kids' Food" Archetype (REACH Project)

Environmental Exposure Clinical Trial

Official title: Dismantling the U.S. Social Norm of the "Kids' Food" Archetype That Includes Ultra-processed Foods Such as Chicken Nuggets and Fries in the Newark, NJ Community

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This project is the first stage of a health promotion campaign to shift social norms about marketing and feeding children ultra-processed foods. Embedded within a longitudinal ethnographic study using photo-elicitation techniques, mothers of preschool-age children will be randomly assigned to arts-based or traditional education about ultra-processed food.

Clinical Trial Description

1. At baseline, describe how mothers of preschool-age children characterize food for children in their home and local environment and describe their knowledge of ultra-processed food.

2. To test different ways of providing nutrition education for increasing knowledge about children's nutrition and ultra-processed foods. Hypothesis: Both groups will correctly identify more ultra-processed foods post-education.

3. To learn in depth from mothers of preschool children about their perceptions of the food environmental culture (markets, advertising, health messaging, community norms, cultural norms, social norms) in Newark, NJ, through a series of focus group discussions about the mothers' photographs of the local food environment pre and post project. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Environmental Exposure
• Food Selection

• NCT number: NCT06266533
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Contact: Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia, EdD
• Phone: (973)972-8393
• Email: pr.puglia@shp.rutgers.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 21, 2024
• Completion date: July 1, 2024