Warning Labels and College Students' Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diet, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Sugar-sweetened beverage warning label

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04435145

HUM00153805

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are one of the few dietary items causally linked to the development of obesity and chronic disease. SSB consumption among young adults are particularly concerning, because of the high levels of consumption and the influence of disease risk in later life. College students, particularly freshmen, are a captive audience when it comes to dietary consumption because many of them consume their meals in residential dining halls. We are currently working with Michigan Dining to implement warning labels on SSB fountain dispensers to examine whether carefully tailored signage could alter beverage choices of college students. The current study aims to assess changes in dietary intake before and after the labels are posted, in a representative sample of University of Michigan students who eat at residential dining halls.

Enrollment: 1,067 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Currently enrolled student at the University
• Visited one of three large dining halls at least 100 times in the first 1.5 months of the academic year

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,067 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Sugar-sweetened beverage warning label

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sugar-sweetened beverage warning label

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No label