Dynamic Presentation of Calorie Information

Not Condition-specific Clinical Trial

Official title:

Dynamic Presentation of Calorie Information

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02906410
• Other study ID #: Dynamic Presentation
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 2016
• Est. completion date: February 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: University of Pennsylvania
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Participants will be asked to select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

Description:

The presence or absence of calorie labels on the hypothetical lunch menu will be randomly assigned to participants. Participants will first be randomly assigned to either the numeric label survey or the light label survey, and then within that survey, participants will be randomly assigned to either a control (no label), an item-level label, or an item-level and meal-level label condition.

Participants will select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 8544
• Est. completion date: February 2019
• Est. primary completion date: February 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 or older

• US resident

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to complete survey on computer

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Not Condition-specific

Intervention

Other:
• Item-Level Calorie information
Information identifying the calorie content of individual items will be provided, as would be done on a restaurant menu board.
• Meal-Level Calorie information
Information from the calorie content of individual items that have been selected by the participant will be dynamically aggregated and presented as a "Total Calories" label on the menu screen.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pennsylvania	Carnegie Mellon University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Sequence of items selected	Single survey presentation, measure of which items were added (and subtracted) from the meal. Both offers a count of number of items considered and a measure of calories "removed" from meal.	5 minutes after presentation of information
Primary	Calories ordered	Single survey presentation, measure of calories ordered collected as people select meal	5 minutes after presentation of information
Secondary	Light category ordered	Single survey presentation, measure of what aggregated light the calories ordered would have qualified for. Collected as people select meal	5 minutes after presentation of information
Secondary	Calories per category	Single survey presentation, measure of calories per entree, calories per side, and calories per drink selected, collected as people select meal	5 minutes after presentation of information