Price Changes and Nutrient Profiling Among Adult Grocery Shoppers

University at Buffalo (UB)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Food Purchases; Nutrition

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrient profiling; Behavioral: Price Changes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02376530

1101757-1-60725

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the research is to examine the association between price changes, nutrient profiling, and grocery food purchases among household grocery shoppers.

Full description

Participants will be asked to select a week's worth of groceries for their household from a virtual online grocery store. Shoppers will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions (control, nutrient profiling, price change, nutrient profiling and price change).

Enrollment: 788 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• primary household grocery shopper
• at least 19 years old
• one or more child (2-18yrs) living full time in the household

Exclusion criteria

• not the primary household grocery shopper
• no dietary, medical, or psychopathology conditions that could interfere with the study
• under the age 19
• no children (2-18yrs) living full time in the household

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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788 participants in 4 patient groups

Usual shopping

No Intervention group

Description:

No change in condition.

Nutrient profiling

Experimental group

Description:

Nutrient profiling system will be present during shopping session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrient profiling

Price change

Experimental group

Description:

Price changes will be present during shopping session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Price Changes

Nutrient profiling and price change

Experimental group

Description:

Nutrient profiling system and price changes will be present during shopping session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Price Changes

Behavioral: Nutrient profiling