Survey of Diet and Health Beliefs

USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Guidelines

Treatments: Other: Perception of information source

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT04858971

GFHNRC337

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to better understand people's health and diet knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and practices. The researchers will use this information to implement better strategies to help Americans maintain more nutritious diets.

Full description

The overall goal of this study is to determine whether there are differences in perceptions of healthy nutrition messages depending on from whom the message is coming. More specifically, the researchers aim to examine whether there are differences in how people perceive and intend to follow nutrition information that is coming from a variety of sources.

Enrollment: 1,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• US citizen
• have access to internet
• have an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) account

Exclusion criteria

• under 18 years of age
• no access to internet

Trial design

1,000 participants in 4 patient groups

Control

Description:

No source will be indicated on information provided for review

Treatment:

Other: Perception of information source

Government source

Description:

A government logo will be shown on information provided for review

Treatment:

Other: Perception of information source

Medical source

Description:

A medical logo will be shown on information provided for review

Treatment:

Other: Perception of information source

Social media source

Description:

A social media logo will be shown on information provided for review

Treatment:

Other: Perception of information source