Fast Food Photo Study

NCT02267954 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HS14-582
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 309
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to discover if people of different demographic levels are more or less attentive to changes in calorie information vs. changes in price information on a restaurant menu. The investigators will record whether the calorie/price change was noticed or not, as well as how quickly the calorie/price change was noticed, depending on condition and individual differences.

Conditions

Obesity

Keywords

Calories; Fast Food Literacy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Calorie and Price Mistakes Noticed

  Did participants indicate that a mistake was present in the calorie labels or price labels?

  10 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Time until Calorie and Price Mistakes Noticed

  10 minutes

• Mistake Number for Calorie and Price Mistakes Noticed

  10 minutes

Study Arms (1)

50% Prices/50% Calories

EXPERIMENTAL

The participant is exposed to the baseline menu, but the prices are edited to be at 50% of the actual price (e.g., a $1 coffee is listed as costing $.50) and the calorie labels are edited to be at 50% of the actual content (e.g., a 500 calorie Large Fries is listed as having 250 calories). In addition, the baseline mistakes are still included. This is the "Menu edited" intervention.

Other: Menu edited

Interventions

Menu edited OTHER

The menu is edited to change price label to 50% of actual value and calorie label to 50% of the actual value, along with other changes.

Also known as: 50% Prices/50% Calories

50% Prices/50% Calories

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Age 18 or older
• Speaks English
• Willing to complete both task and follow-up survey

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Carnegie Mellon University: lead

Study Sites (2)

Community College of Allegheny County

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15212, United States

Location

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overweight; Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Eric M VanEpps, MS

  Carnegie Mellon University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD Candidate

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 14, 2014
• First Posted: October 20, 2014
• Study Start: November 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2015
• Study Completion: August 1, 2015
• Last Updated: January 27, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-01

Locations

US (2)