Effect of a Visual Nutrient Profiling System on Recall of Nutrition Information

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Visual nutrient profiling tool; Behavioral: Nutrient ratings table

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01486147

11687 (IRB Protocol #)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the study is to validate a visual method of presenting nutritional information by determining if users of the visual method remember food properties better than users given the same information in a non-visual form with texts and tables.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Current student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Exclusion criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Visual

Experimental group

Description:

Group provided with nutrition information using visual nutrient profiling tool

Treatment:

Behavioral: Visual nutrient profiling tool

Table

Other group

Description:

Group provided nutrition information using table format

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrient ratings table