NCT06840600

Public Support for Prison Nutrition Standards

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,201 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this experiment is to examine the impact of policy rationale on public support for prison nutrition standards. The main question this experiment aims to answer is: Does the rationale provided for a policy to improve prison nutrition standards impact public support for such a policy? Additionally, this experiment aims to answer: To what extent are participant demographic characteristics correlated with public support for prison nutrition standards?

Detailed description

This study aims to examine the impact of policy rationale on public support for prison nutrition standards. In an online survey, participants will be asked to imagine a new U.S. policy which would require prisons to serve meals that meet the government definition of healthy. Participants will then be randomly assigned to view 1 of 3 different rationales for the new policy, or be assigned to a control arm where no rationale is given. All participants will answer a question about support for the policy.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Public safety rationale	Rationale provided for policy is to increase community safety.
BEHAVIORAL	Right-to-health rationale	Rationale provided for policy is to support humans' right to healthy food.
BEHAVIORAL	Cost-saving rationale	Rationale provided for policy is to save the government money.
BEHAVIORAL	No rationale (Control)	In this arm, no rationale is provided for the policy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-07
• Primary completion: 2025-06-04
• Completion: 2025-06-04
• First posted: 2025-02-21
• Last updated: 2025-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States