NCT01619787

Price Changes and Hypothetical Food Purchases in Adult Grocery Shoppers

Experimental Analysis of Price Changes and Food Purchases in Obese and Lean Mothers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 217 (actual)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of the proposed study is to apply experimental economics in an online grocery store shopping model to examine the effects of pricing on hypothetical food purchases

Detailed description

Participants will be lean and overweight primary grocery shoppers aged 18 years and older. Participants will be considered lean if their body mass index (BMI = kg/m2) is less than 29.9, overweight if their BMI is greater than or equal to 30.12 To meet eligibility for the study, participants must be the guardian of a child at least 2 years or older, do the primary grocery shopping for the family, they must also report being weekly household grocery shoppers, and purchase the majority of their household's groceries once a week.

Conditions

• Effect of Taxes and Subsides on Food Purchases in Mothers

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2012-06-14
• Last updated: 2017-01-10
• Results posted: 2017-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States