Price Changes and Nutrient Profiling Among Adult Grocery Shoppers

Nutrition Clinical Trial

Official title:

Price Changes and Nutrient Profiling Among Adult Grocery Shoppers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02376530
• Other study ID #: 1101757-1-60725
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 2012
• Est. completion date: April 2015

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: State University of New York at Buffalo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the research is to examine the association between price changes, nutrient profiling, and grocery food purchases among household grocery shoppers.

Description:

Participants will be asked to select a week's worth of groceries for their household from a virtual online grocery store. Shoppers will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions (control, nutrient profiling, price change, nutrient profiling and price change).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 788
• Est. completion date: April 2015
• Est. primary completion date: April 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 19 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• primary household grocery shopper

• at least 19 years old

• one or more child (2-18yrs) living full time in the household

Exclusion Criteria:

• not the primary household grocery shopper

• no dietary, medical, or psychopathology conditions that could interfere with the study

• under the age 19

• no children (2-18yrs) living full time in the household

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Food Purchases
• Nutrition

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Nutrient profiling
Nutrient profiling system will be present during shopping session.
• Price Changes
Price changes will be present during shopping session.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University at Buffalo	Buffalo	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
State University of New York at Buffalo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Nutritional Quality of Food Purchases	The Overall Nutrient Quality Index (ONQI) was used to assess nutritional quality of foods purchased. The ONQI is a 1 - 100 scale in which higher numbers indicate higher nutritional quality. Each food is given a score based on a ratio with positive health nutrients in the numerator and detrimental health nutrients in the denominator, based on a proprietary algorithm created by NuVal. The average ONQI score for all the groceries purchases was used as the outcome measure, of ONQI scores on a scale.	Participants were followed for one shopping session, an average of 2.5 hours

External Links

•   Division of Behavioral Medicine, University at Buffalo