Healthy Eating Education for Latinos

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological; Diet Habit; Obesity; Diet, Healthy; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Behavioral: Culturally tailored healthy eating advice; Behavioral: Standard healthy eating advice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04724382

IRB13-1332

Details and patient eligibility

About

This intervention aims to evaluate the efficacy of a pilot educational intervention with deep-structure cultural tailoring for Latino ethnic groups on diet quality compared to general, surface-level healthy-eating messages.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 25-65 y/o
• Self-reported Hispanic/Latino heritage
• Able to understand and answer questions in Spanish or English
• Living in the Boston, MA metro area for the past 6 months and not planning to move in the next 6 months
• Has a cellphone with the capacity of receiving text messages and gives consent for the Study to text this number as part of the intervention

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 25y or older than 65y
• Not Hispanic/Latino heritage
• Has condition or impairment that affects mental, cognitive, or memory abilities; such as Alzheimer's disease or stroke
• Has been diagnosed with cancer, diabetes (type 1 or 2), heart condition, major stomach condition (examples: coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke or stroke, allergies, or severe diet restrictions)
• Does not understand Spanish or English
• Pregnant
• Under the care of an institution
• Living in another state outside of Massachusetts or planning to move in less than 6 months
• No cellphone with text capabilities (or cannot be used to receive texts from the Study)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group consisting of culturally-tailored healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase). A reinforcement phase of 2-months will follow to repeat the text messages.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Culturally tailored healthy eating advice

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group consisting of general healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase). A reinforcement phase of 2-months will follow to repeat the text messages.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard healthy eating advice