Nutricity: A Pilot Study to Improve Parental Nutrition Literacy

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Conditions studied: Dietary Habits, Dietary Modification, Literacy, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

In brief

The aim of this study is to engage parents and their young children (1-5 years of age) using the mobile intervention, Nutricity. Study goals are to increase parental nutrition literacy and improve eating habits of children.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03673267

Run by

University of Kansas Medical Center

People needed

18

Starts

2018-10-15

Expected to finish

2019-08-12

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-04

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Parents must be English speaking and must 1) Identify as primary food decision-maker for the home, 2) Have internet access at home and 3) Must have a device for accessing the internet. Smartphones, owned by \~75-92% of the target population, are adequate to satisfy the latter two criteria.

You may not qualify if…

• 1) Overt cognitive or psychiatric illness, 2) Visual impairments that preclude reading survey instruments or using a tablet, 3) Child illness requiring a highly restrictive diet, such as renal disease, celiac disease, etc., 4) Planning to travel internationally during the study, 5) child is a foster child or ward of the state.

Where it is running

• University of Kansas Medical Center — Kansas City, Kansas, United States

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