NCT04352530

Culturally Appropriate Nutrition Communication for Mexican American Women

Culturally Appropriate Nutrition Communication for Mexican American Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 881 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Merced · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 29 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial to test the effects of culturally appropriate nutrition communication for Mexican American women.

Detailed description

An unbalanced randomized controlled trial with pre-test and immediate post-test was employed to test the effects of different types of message features and appeals. The study was conducted online with Mexican American women aged 18-29 years old. Messages focused on sugary beverage consumption and the main outcomes were acceptance and receptivity to the message (i.e., perceived effectiveness), perceptions of social norms, and knowledge. The investigators also measured a number of hypothesized mediators and moderators of the effects.

Conditions

• Lifestyle Risk Reduction
• Nutrition Poor
• Chronic Disease
• Obesity
• Cancer, Breast

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Health Communication	Spoken word poems set to images performed by youth who wrote the poems. Videos were produced by The Bigger Project and were posted publicly to the Bigger Picture Project website and YouTube. Duration of videos ranges from 2 minutes to 6 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-25
• Primary completion: 2020-12-25
• Completion: 2022-12-25
• First posted: 2020-04-20
• Last updated: 2023-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States