Nutrition Education and e-Texting to Increase Access to Fresh Produce

NCT04065646 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HHCNEAT2015
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing , uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology.

Conditions

Healthy Eating

Keywords

Food Access; Food Security; Fruits and Vegetables; Low-Income

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (8)

• Change in consumption of fruits

  Measured with one question about daily consumption of fruits from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.

  Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

• Change in consumption of vegetables.

  Measured with a one question from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.

  Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

• Change in fruits eating behaviors Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables

  Measured with a readiness 5 item continuous scale item for fruits from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.

  Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

• Change in vegetables eating behaviors. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables

  Measured with a 5 item continuous scale from vegetables from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.

  Baseline and 6 weeks follow up

• Change in amount of money spent on fruits and vegetables.

  self-reported amount of money spent on fresh produce per month.

  Baseline and at 6 week follow up

• Change in amount of money spent on fruits.

  self-reported amount of money spent on fruit per week.

  Baseline and at 6 week follow up

• Change in amount of money spent on vegetables.

  self-reported amount of money spent on vegetables per week.

  Baseline and at 6 week follow up

• Change in self reported usage of the Hartford Mobile Market for buying fresh produce

  self-reported participant's usage of mobile market (yes/no)

  baseline and at 6 weeks follow up

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Participant utilization of coupons

  6 week follow up

• Participant's satisfaction with e-texting messages (likeness)

  6 weeks follow up

• Participant's assessment of usefulness of the messages

  6 weeks follow up

• Participant's assessment of usefulness of the coupons

  6 week follow up

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention group will receive daily text messages with information on: (i) HMM stop locations and schedule; (ii) information on HMM weekly produce specials and sales; (iii) motivational messages encouraging use of the HMM; and (iv) links to produce coupons that they can exchange at HMM- $5 coupons received weekly for the four-week texting period.

Other: Mobile

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will receive the same dosage of daily text messages covering free activities taking place at the Hartford Public Library and other community locations. The control group will not receive incentive coupons.

Interventions

Mobile OTHER

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• SNAP eligible participants with children under 5 years old living at home.
• Living in Hartford, CT.
• Having a cell phone with unlimited smart phone data plans.

You may not qualify if:

• Not living in Hartford Less than 18 years old

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sofia Segura-Pérez: lead
• Yale University: collaborator
• Cornell University: collaborator

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Nutrition Unit Director

Model Details: Baseline interviews will be conducted after participation in nutrition education activity. Upon completing baseline, participants will be randomized into intervention (HMM text messaging) or control (non-health-related texting) groups. Texting will begin the day after randomization is completed and will occur once daily during business days for a duration of one month. In addition to HMM access messages, intervention group participants will receive texts with links to four $5.00 incentive coupons for the Hartford Mobile Market, one during each of the four weeks that the texting will take place. Follow-up interviews will be conducted two weeks after the end of the one-month texting period.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 2, 2019
• First Posted: August 22, 2019
• Study Start: October 23, 2015
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2016
• Study Completion: September 30, 2016
• Last Updated: August 22, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share