Culturally Optimized Messages for Latinos

NCT05589740 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRB22-0828
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 76
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project aims to redesign and optimize a deep-structure culturally-tailored healthy eating program and test its effectiveness in improving dietary outcomes, anthropometric, and blood pressure among 75 diverse Latinos, compared to surface-level messages.

Conditions

Diet, Healthy; Diet Habit; Obesity; Blood Pressure; Psychological

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Changes in diet quality score

  Determine the change in score of short diet quality screener (range 18-54; from lowest to highest quality)

  Month 4

• Change in levels of adipose risk factor

  Estimate the change in the value of waist circumference (cm)

  Month 4

• Change in levels of blood pressure risk factor

  Estimate the change in the value of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

  Month 4

• Change in dietary habits

  Determine the change in the score of dietary behaviors (range 1-5)

  Month 4

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in diet satisfaction: diet satisfaction scale

  Month 4

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group consisting of culturally-tailored healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase); a subsequent reinforcement phase of 2-months to repeat the text messages; and a subsequent maintenance phase of 2-months with no text messages.

Behavioral: Culturally tailored healthy eating advice

Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Control group consisting of general healthy eating advice through daily text messages for 2 months (delivery phase); a subsequent reinforcement phase of 2-months to repeat the text messages; and a subsequent maintenance phase of 2-months with no text messages.

Behavioral: Standard healthy eating advice

Interventions

Culturally tailored healthy eating advice BEHAVIORAL

Culturally-tailored education includes strategies for healthy eating, preferences for traditional healthy foods, recommendations for limiting unhealthy traditional foods, portion sizes, etc.

Intervention

Standard healthy eating advice BEHAVIORAL

Standard healthy eating education includes strategies, foods, portions, and cooking and eating tips for general dietary recommendations from USDA My Plate

Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 25 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• age 25-65 y/o
• self-reported Hispanic/Latino heritage
• able to understand and answer questions in Spanish or English
• living in Massachusetts for the past year and not planning to move in the next year
• having a cellphone with the capacity of receiving and sending text messages and giving consent for the Study to text this number as part of the intervention

You may not qualify if:

• self-reported diagnosis of cancer, diabetes or major stomach or heart condition (e.g.: gastrointestinal cancers, coronary heart disease, previous stroke or heart attack, severe dietary allergies or restrictions)
• planning to move Massachusetts in the next year
• currently pregnant
• institutionalized (i.e.: hospital, prison, etc.).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH): lead

Study Sites (1)

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior; Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Study Officials

• Josiemer Mattei, PhD

  Harvard Chan School of Public Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 14, 2022
• First Posted: October 21, 2022
• Study Start: July 13, 2022
• Primary Completion: April 29, 2024
• Study Completion: May 2, 2024
• Last Updated: May 3, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)