Barriers and Facilitators to Vegetable Intake

USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obese; Overweight

Treatments: Other: Facilitators; Other: Barriers

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03607526

GFHNRC152

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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).

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

32 participants in 2 patient groups

Barriers to Vegetable Consumption

Description:

Four groups of participants will meet for NGT sessions, identifying barriers to meeting the DGA recommendation for vegetable consumption.

Treatment:

Other: Barriers

Facilitators to Vegetable Consumption

Description:

Four groups of participants will meet for NGT sessions, identifying facilitators to meeting the DGA recommendation for vegetable consumption.

Treatment:

Other: Facilitators