Reducing Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Young Adults

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intention; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: gain-frame; Other: attribution; Other: no attribution; Other: No label; Other: text-only; Other: icon; Other: loss-frame

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03672578

1K01DK113068-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

1124060

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to test sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) health labeling elements in an online experiment to determine which elements are the most salient among young adults.

Enrollment: 2,971 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• ≥18 years of age
• current/recent (<1 year of graduation) undergraduate student at 3 specific universities
• English-speaking
• consumes at least 2 SSBs per week

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,971 participants in 9 patient groups, including a placebo group

Loss-frame, text-only, no attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is loss-frame, text-only, and with no attribution

Treatment:

Other: no attribution

Other: text-only

Other: loss-frame

Gain-frame, text-only, no attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is gain-frame, text-only, and with no attribution

Treatment:

Other: no attribution

Other: gain-frame

Other: text-only

Loss-frame, icon, no attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is loss-frame, icon, and with no attribution

Treatment:

Other: no attribution

Other: icon

Other: loss-frame

Grain-frame, icon, no attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is gain-frame, with an icon, and with no attribution

Treatment:

Other: no attribution

Other: gain-frame

Other: icon

Loss-frame, icon, attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is loss-frame, icon, and with attribution

Treatment:

Other: attribution

Other: icon

Other: loss-frame

Gain-frame, icon, attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is grain-frame, icon, and with attribution

Treatment:

Other: gain-frame

Other: attribution

Other: icon

Loss-frame, text-only, attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is loss-frame, text-only, and with attribution

Treatment:

Other: attribution

Other: text-only

Other: loss-frame

Gain-frame, text-only, attribution

Experimental group

Description:

Label participants will see is gain-frame, text-only, and with attribution

Treatment:

Other: gain-frame

Other: attribution

Other: text-only

No label

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participant will not see a label

Treatment:

Other: No label