Delays to Influence Snack Choice

Completed

Conditions studied: Food Choice

In brief

The pervasiveness of high-calorie, nutrient-poor snacks in the environment is believed to have contributed to the epidemic levels of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the U.S. This project tests whether a novel snack vending machine system that uses brief time delays to reduce the immediacy of reward from unhealthy snacks will improve the healthfulness of snack choices. If successful, this project will identify a new environmental intervention that could contribute substantially to obesity and cardiometabolic disease prevention efforts in schools, worksites, and other settings.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02359916

Run by

Rush University Medical Center

People needed

32662

Starts

2015-06-01

Expected to finish

2016-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-23

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Not applicable

You may not qualify if…

• Not applicable

Where it is running

• Rush University Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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