NCT02574052

Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling

Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling With or Without Nutrition

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.

Detailed description

1. The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake. 2. A pre-post non-controlled study design was implemented in the medical college and was divided into three stages: just recording the dietary selection in the three meals daily, recording the dietary selection with the provision of menu labeling accompanying with or without nutrition education. The investigators adopted photographs-based dietary assessment tools and a mobile phone application 'WeChat' was utilized as the photographs and nutrition knowledge transfer platform. Two professional researchers respectively read the received photographs and calculated participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

Conditions

• Dietary Modification

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	participants' food choices	just recorded the participants' food choices in the school cafeteria
BEHAVIORAL	menu labelling without nutrition education	The investigators provided every participant with a menu labeling without any interpretation and recorded their dietary selections
BEHAVIORAL	menu labelling with nutrition education	The investigators not only sent a menu labeling to every participant, but also delivered nutrition education to participants by providing them with nutrition and health knowledge through WeChat daily.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2015-10-12
• Last updated: 2015-10-12