Vitamin D Among Young Adults: an Intervention Study Using a Mobile 'App'.

University of Guelph

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vitamin D Deficiency

Treatments: Other: wait listed; Behavioral: an educational video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02118129

2014GoodmanVitD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether a behavioural intervention changes attitudes, knowledge, intake or blood levels of vitamin D in young adults. The hypothesis is that an educational component and use of a mobile smartphone 'app' will increase knowledge and/or intake of vitamin D.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men or women aged 18-25 years
• Must be fluent in English
• Must be currently living in Canada
• Must own iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 7.0 or higher (handheld 'app' used in intervention is only available in Apple Store; not available for Android or Blackberry platforms at this time)

Exclusion criteria

• Outside age group
• Not fluent in English
• Not living in Canada
• Does not own the specified Apple device

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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105 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Behavioural intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioural intervention consisting of an educational video component and use of a handheld mobile app to track vitamin D intake.

Treatment:

Behavioral: an educational video

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Wait-list control group

Treatment:

Other: wait listed