Clinical trial NCT04832243: List Experiment to Measure Food and Water Insecurity
Official title: List Experiment to Measure Food and Water Insecurity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Food Deprivation
Water Deprivation
Keywords: Food Insecurity
Water Insecurity
Lead sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Mbarara University of Science and Technology
First posted: 2021-04-05
Enrollment: 1553
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: List experiment to measure food and water insecurity

Detailed description: Food and water insecurity are complex, multi-domain constructs. Given their known association with important health and mental health outcomes, accurate assessment of food and water insecurity in resource-limited settings is paramount. The purpose of this study is to use a list experiment methodology to assess the extent to which there is bias in conventional survey-based means of direct elicitation of food and water insecurity. The list experiment provides an indirect means to measure a particular construct of interest. It is hypothesized that social desirability may cause upward bias in conventional survey-based means of direct elicitation of food and water insecurity.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All adults who consider Nyakabare their primary place of residence and who are capable of providing consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Minors younger than 18 years of age, with the exception of emancipated minors
* Persons who do not consider Nyakabare Parish their primary place of residence, e.g., persons who happen to be visiting Nyakabare at the time of the survey or who own a home in Nyakabare but spend most of their time outside the parish
* Persons with psychosis, neurological damage, acute intoxication, or other cognitive impairment (all of which are determined informally in the field by non-clinical research staff in consultation with a supervisor)

Primary outcomes:
measure: No Food Due to Lack of Money
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
measure: No Water Due to Difficulty Collecting
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
measure: Going to Sleep Hungry
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
measure: Going to Sleep Thirsty
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
measure: No Food for Entire Day
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
measure: Drink Unsafe Water
timeFrame: Baseline (The experimental manipulation in this study has to do with which version of the survey the study participant receives, so the time frame for assessment is immediate even though participants are asked about the past month)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mbarara
country: Uganda
facility: Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Study officials:
affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
name: Alexander C Tsai, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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