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Healthy Eating Education for Latinos

P

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

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

Trial contacts and locations

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