NCT02906410

Dynamic Presentation of Calorie Information

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8,544 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Participants will be asked to select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

Detailed description

The presence or absence of calorie labels on the hypothetical lunch menu will be randomly assigned to participants. Participants will first be randomly assigned to either the numeric label survey or the light label survey, and then within that survey, participants will be randomly assigned to either a control (no label), an item-level label, or an item-level and meal-level label condition. Participants will select a hypothetical lunch from a menu that features entrees, sides, and drinks. Participants will be able to select a maximum of 1 item from each category. Following this meal selection, participants will complete a short survey about their demographics, their estimates of information about the meal and about recommended eating habits.

Conditions

• Not Condition-specific

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Item-Level Calorie information	Information identifying the calorie content of individual items will be provided, as would be done on a restaurant menu board.
OTHER	Meal-Level Calorie information	Information from the calorie content of individual items that have been selected by the participant will be dynamically aggregated and presented as a "Total Calories" label on the menu screen.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-01
• Completion: 2019-02-01
• First posted: 2016-09-20
• Last updated: 2019-02-06