Public Support for Prison Nutrition Standards

NCT06840600 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 25-0030
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,201
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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?

Conditions

Healthy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Policy Support

  Policy support will be measured with an item that reads "Would you…" with response options on a 5-point scale ranging from "Strongly oppose this law" coded as 1, to "Strongly support this law", coded as 5. Higher scores indicate stronger policy support.

  Assessed one-time via online survey immediately after participant views each policy rationale (exposure to study stimuli). Overall survey will take approximately 15 minutes.

Study Arms (4)

Public safety rationale

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Public safety rationale

Right-to-health rationale

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Right-to-health rationale

Cost-saving rationale

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Cost-saving rationale

No rationale (Control)

OTHER

Behavioral: No rationale (Control)

Interventions

Public safety rationale BEHAVIORAL

Rationale provided for policy is to increase community safety.

Public safety rationale

Right-to-health rationale BEHAVIORAL

Rationale provided for policy is to support humans' right to healthy food.

Right-to-health rationale

Cost-saving rationale BEHAVIORAL

Rationale provided for policy is to save the government money.

Cost-saving rationale

No rationale (Control) BEHAVIORAL

In this arm, no rationale is provided for the policy.

No rationale (Control)

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• At least 18 years of age
• Report residing in the US
• Can read and speak English
• Have internet access to complete the online survey

You may not qualify if:

• Under 18 years of age
• Residing outside the US

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: lead
• Stanford University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Carolyn Chelius, MS

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 17, 2025
• First Posted: February 21, 2025
• Study Start: May 7, 2025
• Primary Completion: June 4, 2025
• Study Completion: June 4, 2025
• Last Updated: August 12, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)