Nutritional Video Intervention Using Mindfulness-based Principles

University of Southern California

Status: Completed

Conditions: Simple Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Cart Video; Behavioral: Healthy Cart and Stress Management Videos

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02494661

UP-14-00591

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to access the acceptability and potential utility of nutritional intervention videos in 1) changing knowledge and attitudes about healthy eating, 2) improving healthy food shopping practices, and 3) enhancing skills for stress reduction during food shopping among low-income Latina mothers.

Full description

• Low income Latina mothers (N=218) who are primary grocery shoppers for the family will be recruited through community based organization to take part in the study. Participation will include completion of survey instruments at baseline, immediately following the intervention; and a subset of participants (N=68) will also complete a 2-month follow-up survey and provide up to two weekly grocery store receipts from the prior 1-2 months at baseline and 2-month followup assessment points. The survey will collect data on demographics, knowledge about healthy eating, self efficacy, perceived stress and family history of relevant health issues. Grocery store receipts will be coded and used to evaluate pre-post changes in shopping of healthy vs unhealthy foods. The study compares two conditions: in the control condition, participants will view a 14-minute video on grocery shopping that teaches participants how to make healthy food choices. In the intervention condition, participants will view the aforementioned video in addition to a 15-minute video on how to manage stressors that arise during grocery shopping. -Surveys are to entered manually into chosen database by research assistant.
• 100% of data entries will be checked by Project specialist for accuracy.
• A total of 218 participants will be recruited to partake in the control condition Group A or Group B of the intervention.
• Because of the exploratory nature of the study, power calculations were not used to determine sample size.
• Group x time analyses will compare changes in knowledge, attitudes and self efficacy before and after exposure to the videos in the entire sample; and in the subsample followed for 2 months, compare baseline to 2-month followup changes in knowledge, attitudes, self efficacy, mindfulness and stress related measures as well as behavior change in food choices during grocery shopping.

Enrollment: 218 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Identify as a Hispanic woman
• Ages: 18-55 years
• Responsible for buying groceries for family
• Language use: Ability to speak, read and write English or Spanish
• Resident in the USC's Health Sciences Campus and University Park Campus neighborhoods

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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218 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthy Cart and Stress Mangement Videos

Experimental group

Description:

Healthy Cart and Stress Management Videos: Participants receive two nutritional intervention videos: active comparator and managing stress while food shopping.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Cart and Stress Management Videos

Healthy Cart Video

Active Comparator group

Description:

Healthy Cart Video: Participants receive one nutritional video intervention on how to shop for healthy foods using My Plate Guidelines.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Cart Video