Healthy Eating(NEAT)NCT04065646
Nutrition Education and e-Texting to Increase Access to Fresh Produce
A study testing Mobile in people with Healthy Eating, run by Sofia Segura-Pérez.
Trial 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. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Healthy Eating
- What is being tested?
- Mobile
- Type of treatment
- Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 200 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 23 Oct 2015to 30 Sep 2016
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 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.
Who cannot join
- Not living in Hartford Less than 18 years old
About this study
Official title: Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market With e-Marketing
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.
Read the detailed description
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. Thus, the study combines key elements that have been deemed necessary for increasing produce intake among low income communities. The goal of the NEAT study is to assess the impact of a texting-based social marketing campaign on SNAP-Ed participants' access to and purchase of fresh produce on a recently launched mobile produce market, and their subsequent produce intake. Objectives include: 1) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on purchase of fruits and vegetables; 2) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on consumption of fruits and vegetables; and 3) Assess the effectiveness of coupon distribution on coupon redemption at a mobile produce market. The NEAT design will be a randomized controlled trial using a pre-post assessment comparing change in behavior. Both intervention and control groups will receive SNAP-Ed education as currently delivered by the Hispanic Health Council. The intervention group will receive additional promotional text messaging related to use of the mobile market. The control group will receive text messaging about free activities taking place at the Hartford Public Library and other community locations. Participants will be interviewed via phone at baseline, then randomized to intervention and control groups, and re-interviewed again 6 weeks after they start receiving the text messages, which it will be 2 weeks after the one-month texting period ends.
- Conditions
- Healthy Eating
- Being tested
- Mobile
- Keywords
- Food Access, Food Security, Fruits and Vegetables, Low-Income
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
MobileOther
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Receives: 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. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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.
Measured: 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)
Measured: baseline and at 6 weeks follow up
Secondary outcomes (4)
Participant utilization of coupons
Based on one yes/no question about coupon redemption
Measured: 6 week follow up
Participant's satisfaction with e-texting messages (likeness)
Self reported satisfaction with nutrition messages using a 5- likert scale (like it very much to dislike it very much)
Measured: 6 weeks follow up
Participant's assessment of usefulness of the messages
Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.
Measured: 6 weeks follow up
Participant's assessment of usefulness of the coupons
Self reported continuous 4 likert scale from not useful to very much useful.
Measured: 6 week follow up
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted22 Aug 2019
- Study start23 Oct 2015
- Primary completion30 Sep 2016
- Study completion30 Sep 2016
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Healthy EatingStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- 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.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Sofia Segura-Pérez
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Yale University, Cornell University
- Responsible party
- Sponsor-investigator, Sofia Segura-Pérez, Hispanic Health Council, Inc.
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04065646
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- HHCNEAT2015
- Acronym
- (NEAT)
- Status last verified
- Aug 2019
- First submitted
- 2 Aug 2019
- Last updated
- 22 Aug 2019
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 22 Aug 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market With e-Marketing
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04065646
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- (NEAT) / HHCNEAT2015
- Conditions
- Healthy Eating
- Keywords
- Food Access, Food Security, Fruits and Vegetables, Low-Income
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Sofia Segura-PérezUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Yale University, Cornell University
- Study start
- 23 Oct 2015 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Sep 2016 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Sep 2016 (actual)
- First posted
- 22 Aug 2019 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
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.
Detailed description
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. Thus, the study combines key elements that have been deemed necessary for increasing produce intake among low income communities. The goal of the NEAT study is to assess the impact of a texting-based social marketing campaign on SNAP-Ed participants' access to and purchase of fresh produce on a recently launched mobile produce market, and their subsequent produce intake. Objectives include: 1) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on purchase of fruits and vegetables; 2) Compare the impact of nutrition education alone to nutrition education plus promotional text messaging on consumption of fruits and vegetables; and 3) Assess the effectiveness of coupon distribution on coupon redemption at a mobile produce market. The NEAT design will be a randomized controlled trial using a pre-post assessment comparing change in behavior. Both intervention and control groups will receive SNAP-Ed education as currently delivered by the Hispanic Health Council. The intervention group will receive additional promotional text messaging related to use of the mobile market. The control group will receive text messaging about free activities taking place at the Hartford Public Library and other community locations. Participants will be interviewed via phone at baseline, then randomized to intervention and control groups, and re-interviewed again 6 weeks after they start receiving the text messages, which it will be 2 weeks after the one-month texting period ends.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- 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.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Experimental | Other: MobileThe 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. |
| 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. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- 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.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Not living in Hartford Less than 18 years old
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile | Other | Intervention |
Primary outcome
Change in consumption of fruits
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Measured with one question about daily consumption of fruits from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.
Change in consumption of vegetables.
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Measured with a one question from a seven item fruit and vegetable checklist developed by Townsend et.al.
Change in fruits eating behaviors Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Measured with a readiness 5 item continuous scale item for fruits from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.
Change in vegetables eating behaviors. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up
Measured with a 5 item continuous scale from vegetables from fruit and vegetable inventory validated by Townsend et.al.
Change in amount of money spent on fruits and vegetables.
Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up
self-reported amount of money spent on fresh produce per month.
Change in amount of money spent on fruits.
Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up
self-reported amount of money spent on fruit per week.
Change in amount of money spent on vegetables.
Time frame: Baseline and at 6 week follow up
self-reported amount of money spent on vegetables per week.
Change in self reported usage of the Hartford Mobile Market for buying fresh produce
Time frame: baseline and at 6 weeks follow up
self-reported participant's usage of mobile market (yes/no)
4 secondary outcomes
Participant utilization of coupons
Time frame: 6 week follow up
Participant's satisfaction with e-texting messages (likeness)
Time frame: 6 weeks follow up
Participant's assessment of usefulness of the messages
Time frame: 6 weeks follow up
Participant's assessment of usefulness of the coupons
Time frame: 6 week follow up
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 22 Aug 2019.
- The NEAT TrialLink provided by the sponsor.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Mobile in people with Healthy Eating, run by Sofia Segura-Pérez.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 22 Aug 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in consumption of fruits (time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks follow up). The study lists 8 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 22 Aug 2019.