Clinical trial NCT03607526: Barriers and Facilitators to Vegetable Intake
Official title: Barriers and Facilitators to Following the Dietary Guidelines for Vegetable Intake: Follow-up of an Intervention to Increase Vegetable Consumption
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Overweight
Obese
Keywords: Vegetable Intake
Lead sponsor: USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
Sponsor class: FED
First posted: 2018-07-31
Enrollment: 32
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Recruitment will be limited to contacting participants who previously took part in a study (NCT02585102) and upon completion of that study indicated willingness to be contacted for a follow-up study. The original study recruited overweight or obese adults who reported consuming not more than 1 serving of vegetables per day. In that study, participants were provided vegetables or were in a control group. Research staff will send invitations to participate in one of the NGT sessions.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to find out why people do or do not eat vegetables.

Detailed description: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) stress the importance of a diet high in fruits and vegetables (FV) to achieve health benefits. Despite the recommendations, adherence is low; only 12% of the population meets the recommendation for fruits and even less of the population (9%) meets the recommendation for vegetables. Recently, it was found that vegetable consumption increased when individuals were provided the recommended daily amounts while participating in a clinical study, but returned to pre-study low levels when vegetables were no longer supplied. This result suggests that habitual consumption of FV is strongly regulated by behaviors influenced by social, environmental, and/or individual factors. Therefore, identifying regulatory factors of vegetable consumption will greatly assist in developing successful strategies to increase vegetable intake to achieve health benefits. The overall objective of this study is to examine both barriers and facilitators to adherence to consuming DGA-recommended amounts of vegetables in participants who completed a randomized controlled trial with provided vegetables or who were in a control group, using the Nominal Group Technique (NGT).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participant in NCT02585102 who gave permission to be contacted for a follow-up study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Did not participate in NCT02585102.
* Participant in NCT02585102 who did not give permission to be contacted for a follow-up study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Barriers and facilitators to vegetable consumption
timeFrame: 2 hours
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Grand Forks
country: United States
facility: USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
state: North Dakota
Study officials:
affiliation: USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
name: Shanon Casperson, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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