NCT04435145

Warning Labels and College Students' Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake

The Impact of Warning Labels on Reducing College Students' Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,067 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Diet, Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sugar-sweetened beverage warning label	A sugar-sweetened beverage warning label appropriate for the college-aged population was developed and applied to beverage stations at one large campus dining hall

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-06
• Primary completion: 2019-03-31
• Completion: 2019-03-31
• First posted: 2020-06-17
• Last updated: 2020-06-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States