Clinical trial NCT02574052: Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling
Official title: Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling With or Without Nutrition
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Dietary Modification
Keywords: Menu Labelling;
Nutrition Education;
dietary assessment tools;
Lead sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-10-12
Enrollment: 120
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.

Detailed description: 1. The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake.
2. A pre-post non-controlled study design was implemented in the medical college and was divided into three stages: just recording the dietary selection in the three meals daily, recording the dietary selection with the provision of menu labeling accompanying with or without nutrition education. The investigators adopted photographs-based dietary assessment tools and a mobile phone application 'WeChat' was utilized as the photographs and nutrition knowledge transfer platform. Two professional researchers respectively read the received photographs and calculated participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Grade 2012, 2013 undergraduate students and Grade 2013 graduate students

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants who sent the photographs less than six times in any one of the three meals at any stage

  * Participants who did not complete their questionnaires

    * Participants who withdrew from the experiment at any stage

Primary outcomes:
measure: Descriptive Name of Scale: Composite outcome measure of calorie (kcal/day), protein(g/day), fat intake (g/day) and carbohydrate intake (g/day) of participants
timeFrame: up to six weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
name: Yexuan Tao, PH.D, M.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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