Clinical trial NCT02804503: The Effect of Menu Labels on Calories Ordered in Hispanics
Official title: The Effect of Menu Labels on Food Choices in Hispanics
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Food Selection
Lead sponsor: Texas Christian University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-06-17
Enrollment: 372
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Most studies on menu labels have been conducted in mostly non-Hispanic white individuals, and how menu labels affect calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics is not clearly understood. This study evaluated the impact of menu labels on calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics.

Detailed description: According to review studies, calorie labels on menus is not effective in reducing the number of calories ordered or consumed. Adding contextual information such as the energy needs per meal or interpretive information such as minutes of walking needed to burn the food calories or rank-ordering the food items from the lowest to the highest calorie content may be more effective in making food selections with fewer calories. Most studies on menu labels have, however, been conducted in mostly non-Hispanic white individuals, and how menu labels affect food choices in Hispanics in not well understood. This study evaluated the impact of menu labels on calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics by randomly assigning the participants to a menu with no labels (no labels), a menu with rank ordered calorie labels and a statement on the energy needs per meal (calorie labels), and a menu with rank ordered exercise labels (exercise labels). Calories and macronutrients ordered by the participants was assessed.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Hispanics ages 18 through 65 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not being able to read and write in either English or Spanish; pregnant or lactating women.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Calories Ordered
timeFrame: 20-30 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Macronutrients ordered
timeFrame: 20-30 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Fort Worth
country: United States
facility: Meena Shah
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Tzu Chi University
name: Meena Shah, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Shah M, Bouza B, Adams-Huet B, Jaffery M, Esposito P, Dart L. Effect of calorie or exercise labels on menus on calories and macronutrients ordered and calories from specific foods in Hispanic participants: a randomized study. J Investig Med. 2016 Dec;64(8):1261-1268. doi: 10.1136/jim-2016-000227. Epub 2016 Jul 8.