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Price Changes and Nutrient Profiling Among Adult Grocery Shoppers

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02376530
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 3, 2015
Results First Posted : March 6, 2017
Last Update Posted : October 22, 2020
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Leonard Epstein, State University of New York at Buffalo

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

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Nutrition Food Purchases Behavioral: Nutrient profiling Behavioral: Price Changes Not Applicable

Detailed 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).
Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 788 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Official Title: Price Changes and Nutrient Profiling Among Adult Grocery Shoppers
Study Start Date : September 2012
Actual Primary Completion Date : April 2015
Actual Study Completion Date : April 2015
Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
No Intervention: Usual shopping
No change in condition.
Experimental: Nutrient profiling
Nutrient profiling system will be present during shopping session.
 Behavioral: Nutrient profiling
Nutrient profiling system will be present during shopping session.
Experimental: Price change
Price changes will be present during shopping session.
 Behavioral: Price Changes
Price changes will be present during shopping session.
Experimental: Nutrient profiling and price change
Nutrient profiling system and price changes will be present during shopping session.
 Behavioral: Nutrient profiling
Nutrient profiling system will be present during shopping session.

Behavioral: Price Changes
Price changes will be present during shopping session.


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Nutritional Quality of Food Purchases [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for one shopping session, an average of 2.5 hours ]
    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.


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   19 Years to 80 Years   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

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
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02376530


Locations
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United States, New York
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, United States, 14214
Sponsors and Collaborators
State University of New York at Buffalo
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Leonard Epstein, Ph.D University at Buffalo
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Additional Information:

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Responsible Party: Leonard Epstein, Principal Investigator, State University of New York at Buffalo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02376530    
Other Study ID Numbers: 1101757-1-60725
First Posted: March 3, 2015    Key Record Dates
Results First Posted: March 6, 2017
Last Update Posted: October 22, 2020
Last Verified: October 2020
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
Plan to Share IPD: No