NCT04710108

Testing Message Modality of Culturally Appropriate Nutrition Communication for Mexican American Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 129 (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 delivered via different modalities for Mexican American women.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial with pre-test and immediate post-test was employed to test the effects of different types of message modalities (video vs. comic book). The study was conducted online with Mexican American women aged 18-29 years old. Messages focused on sugary beverage consumption and the main outcomes are individual intention to adopt health behaviors which will be measured by the increased degree of individual knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, and intention to reduce SSB consumption, as well as social level behavior changes that will be measured by the improved magnitude of public health literacy, SSB media literacy, and empowerment. Secondary outcomes of interest include the evaluations on the dimension of message themselves include participants' direct reaction to messages and their perceived effectiveness of messages, which will be measured by transportation of messages, identification of characters, emotional response of scenes, perceived effectiveness of messages, engagement with messages, and willingness to disseminate messages.

Conditions

• Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption
• Nutrition
• Lifestyle-related Condition
• Lifestyle Risk Reduction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Health Communication	Spoken word poem set to video images performed by author. Comic book was transformed from the video that was equivalent in content to the video.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-02
• Primary completion: 2021-05-15
• Completion: 2021-12-25
• First posted: 2021-01-14
• Last updated: 2022-05-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States