Building on a Point-of-purchase Intervention to Encourage Healthy Food Choices

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Food Labeling

In brief

This study builds on the framework of a previously implemented color-coded food labeling intervention in a hospital cafeteria by testing the incremental effectiveness of providing employees with individual feedback and incentives for increasing healthy purchases in a 3-arm randomized controlled trial. The investigators hypothesize that employees assigned to receive feedback will increase healthy purchases more than employees who receive no contact and that employees who receive feedback plus incentives will increase healthy purchases more than those who receive feedback alone.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01604499

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

2672

Starts

2012-09-01

Expected to finish

2013-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-10-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Employee at Massachusetts General Hospital who uses a cafeteria debit card to pay for cafeteria purchases

You may not qualify if…

• Employees who do not have a cafeteria debit card
• Employees with cafeteria debit card but who use it fewer than 3 times a month for the 3 months prior to start of trial

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.