Nutrition PoorNCT05611320
Assessing and Amplifying Parent Support for Locally Sourced Produce in Barbados
A study testing Awareness campaign - communications campaign and Online shopping in people with Nutrition Poor, run by Inter-American Development Bank.
Trial summary
This study seeks to promote consumption of locally sourced foods among school going children in Barbados. The study targets parents/care givers of school going children aged 18 years and below. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any age
- Conditions the study is for
- Nutrition Poor
- What is being tested?
- Awareness campaign - communications campaign and Online shopping
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 1,500 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- Nov 2022to 30 May 2023
- 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 Any age
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Parents/caregivers of school going children aged 18 years and below and living in Barbados
- Parents/Caregivers of school going children aged 18 years and below who have access to a mobile phone
Who cannot join
- Parents /caregivers whose children are above 18 years old, do not live in Barbados and do not have access to a mobile phone
Trial locations and contacts
No sites are listed yet.
Indhira Ramirez, MSc contact
About this study
This study seeks to promote consumption of locally sourced foods among school going children in Barbados. The study targets parents/care givers of school going children aged 18 years and below. Parents have been chosen as the target for this study because they shape the meals that their children consume through two primary routes; a) direct purchase of meal ingredients and b) political influence on school based meal programs. The study seeks to achieve this by first identifying the behavioral obstacles for consumption of locally sourced produce through exploratory and desk research and then designing interventions to address the obstacles.
Read the detailed description
This study will be rolled out as a digital interface experiment where the survey and intervention prompts will be programmed on OTree platform with pre-randomized assignments of the participants into either treatment or control groups. Busara Center for Behavioral Economics has partnered with a local organization named FutureBarbados who are part of the Government of Barbados. The organization will avail census data for parents with school going children below 18 years of age in Barbados. Busara will then randomly sample a pool of 1500 parents who will be sent a link to the programmed survey and intervention prompts to fill out. The process will entail first a consenting process which will be displayed on their phone screens upon opening the link. The consent information will outline clearly the purpose of their study, the length of the survey, data confidentiality, the voluntary nature of participation as well as contact information in the event they would like further clarification before making the decision to take part in the study.
Once the participants consent to take part in the study the survey will have been programmed to assign them the respective survey depending on the treatment or control assignment.
The assignments are as follows:
- Control group 1: This will involve the provision of innocuous information about food. This provides a control group that is similar to the treatment groups in terms of the amount of time and cognitive effort demanded from them. This allows for a baseline measurement of parental interest in local produce.
- Control group 2: This will involve provision of general, positive information about the use of local produce in school meals. This is a secondary control that allows for the separate estimation of the effect of increasing attention to local produce, and serves to control for demand effects of the experiment itself.
- Treatment group 1: This will include an awareness campaign designed for parents. The campaign will consist of a series of photos of healthy meals showcasing how to use local produce. The meals will be child-friendly and easy to prepare. The messaging on the campaign will include educational content on 1) the importance of shopping for local produce to support farmers and the local community rather than relying solely on imported produce. 2) Seasonality of local produce; when to use what? This is intended to support parents to plan their meals according to availability of certain local produce with the ultimate aim of obtaining a healthy diet affordably
- Treatment group 2: This will provide information promoting of an online market platform where one can order local produce to be delivered directly to their homes.
- Conditions
- Nutrition Poor
- Being tested
- Awareness campaign - communications campaign, Online shopping
- Medical subject headings
- Malnutrition
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Awareness campaign - communications campaignOther
How this concept would work in a full deployment:
- Develop a set of images of healthy meals with local produce. The meals will be child-friendly and easy to prepare.
- Develop educational content to accompany the images, on the importance of shopping for local produce, and seasonality (when to use what). Optionally work with farmer associations to inform the seasonal options.
- Package the materials as posters and/or digital infographics. The materials include a link to the campaign website, which has more information about nutrition, local produce and recipes to inspire parents.
- Partner with government agencies (e.g., ministry of health) to deploy the posters in local supermarkets, and in newspapers and on social media. Make the materials available to the farmer associations for their dissemination as well.
Online shoppingOther
Provide information on an online shopping site where the parents can shop for local produce online, and have it delivered to their homes, to disrupt their current ingredient-selection habits. Working backwards from a potential broad implementation, here we identify key risks along the path, and examine how to use the pilot to de-risk those areas.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness Campaign | Experimental | Raise awareness among parents about how and why to use local produce in their kid's meals. Receives: Other: Awareness campaign - communications campaign |
| Online Shopping | Experimental | Provide information about an online shopping platform where the parents can shop for local produce online, and have it delivered, to disrupt their current ingredient-selection habits. Receives: Other: Online shopping |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Voucher Selection
Knowledge, attitudes and political support for local food, as well as a final measure of whether the respondent would rather receive a voucher for a store that sells local produce or a voucher for a store that sells imported food.
Parents will be incentivized for their participation in the study with 10 Bajan Dollars for the purchase of food, and will be entered into a sweepstakes for 2000 Bajan Dollars (1,000 USD). At the end of the intervention given above, they are asked whether they would like a voucher for either:
- A fast food restaurant
- A local produce market
The voucher selection is an incentive-compatible proxy for purchasing local produce or imported goods. This choice is made in full awareness of the frictions that parents face to sourcing produce from farmers markets, versus the ease of a supermarket: the study measures the impact of the interventions on behavior change in their real context, not in a hypothetical, friction-free choice environment.
Measured: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Political support for prioritization of local food
Parents will be asked to rank order their preference for government policies among numerous (real) options -from job creation programs to climate change; embedded in that list will be a program for locally sourced produce for kids. Each arm's average ranking for the local produce option serves as the political support outcome measure.
Measured: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted10 Nov 2022
- Study startNov 2022 (estimated)
- Primary completion30 May 2023 (estimated)
- Study completion30 May 2023 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Nutrition PoorStudies 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
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 1,500 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05611320
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2022-BA-1
- Status last verified
- Nov 2022
- First submitted
- 19 Oct 2022
- Last updated
- 10 Nov 2022
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 10 Nov 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Assessing and Amplifying Parent Support for Locally Sourced Produce in Barbados
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05611320
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2022-BA-1
- Conditions
- Nutrition Poor
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 1,500 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Inter-American Development BankUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
- Study start
- Nov 2022 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- 30 May 2023 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 30 May 2023 (estimated)
- First posted
- 10 Nov 2022 (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.
This study seeks to promote consumption of locally sourced foods among school going children in Barbados. The study targets parents/care givers of school going children aged 18 years and below. Parents have been chosen as the target for this study because they shape the meals that their children consume through two primary routes; a) direct purchase of meal ingredients and b) political influence on school based meal programs. The study seeks to achieve this by first identifying the behavioral obstacles for consumption of locally sourced produce through exploratory and desk research and then designing interventions to address the obstacles.
Detailed description
This study will be rolled out as a digital interface experiment where the survey and intervention prompts will be programmed on OTree platform with pre-randomized assignments of the participants into either treatment or control groups. Busara Center for Behavioral Economics has partnered with a local organization named FutureBarbados who are part of the Government of Barbados. The organization will avail census data for parents with school going children below 18 years of age in Barbados. Busara will then randomly sample a pool of 1500 parents who will be sent a link to the programmed survey and intervention prompts to fill out. The process will entail first a consenting process which will be displayed on their phone screens upon opening the link. The consent information will outline clearly the purpose of their study, the length of the survey, data confidentiality, the voluntary nature of participation as well as contact information in the event they would like further clarification before making the decision to take part in the study.
Once the participants consent to take part in the study the survey will have been programmed to assign them the respective survey depending on the treatment or control assignment.
The assignments are as follows:
- Control group 1: This will involve the provision of innocuous information about food. This provides a control group that is similar to the treatment groups in terms of the amount of time and cognitive effort demanded from them. This allows for a baseline measurement of parental interest in local produce.
- Control group 2: This will involve provision of general, positive information about the use of local produce in school meals. This is a secondary control that allows for the separate estimation of the effect of increasing attention to local produce, and serves to control for demand effects of the experiment itself.
- Treatment group 1: This will include an awareness campaign designed for parents. The campaign will consist of a series of photos of healthy meals showcasing how to use local produce. The meals will be child-friendly and easy to prepare. The messaging on the campaign will include educational content on 1) the importance of shopping for local produce to support farmers and the local community rather than relying solely on imported produce. 2) Seasonality of local produce; when to use what? This is intended to support parents to plan their meals according to availability of certain local produce with the ultimate aim of obtaining a healthy diet affordably
- Treatment group 2: This will provide information promoting of an online market platform where one can order local produce to be delivered directly to their homes.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness Campaign | Experimental | Other: Awareness campaign - communications campaignRaise awareness among parents about how and why to use local produce in their kid's meals. |
| Online Shopping | Experimental | Other: Online shoppingProvide information about an online shopping platform where the parents can shop for local produce online, and have it delivered, to disrupt their current ingredient-selection habits. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Parents/caregivers of school going children aged 18 years and below and living in Barbados
- Parents/Caregivers of school going children aged 18 years and below who have access to a mobile phone
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Parents /caregivers whose children are above 18 years old, do not live in Barbados and do not have access to a mobile phone
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness campaign - communications campaignHow this concept would work in a full deployment: 1. Develop a set of images of healthy meals with local produce. The meals will be child-friendly and easy to prepare. 2. Develop educational content to accompany the images, on the importance of shopping for local produce, and seasonality (when to use what). Optionally work with farmer associations to inform the seasonal options. 3. Package the materials as posters and/or digital infographics. The materials include a link to the campaign website, which has more information about nutrition, local produce and recipes to inspire parents. 4. Partner with government agencies (e.g., ministry of health) to deploy the posters in local supermarkets, and in newspapers and on social media. Make the materials available to the farmer associations for their dissemination as well. | Other | Awareness Campaign |
| Online shoppingProvide information on an online shopping site where the parents can shop for local produce online, and have it delivered to their homes, to disrupt their current ingredient-selection habits. Working backwards from a potential broad implementation, here we identify key risks along the path, and examine how to use the pilot to de-risk those areas. | Other | Online Shopping |
Primary outcome
Voucher Selection
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Knowledge, attitudes and political support for local food, as well as a final measure of whether the respondent would rather receive a voucher for a store that sells local produce or a voucher for a store that sells imported food. Parents will be incentivized for their participation in the study with 10 Bajan Dollars for the purchase of food, and will be entered into a sweepstakes for 2000 Bajan Dollars (1,000 USD). At the end of the intervention given above, they are asked whether they would like a voucher for either: 1. A fast food restaurant 2. A local produce market The voucher selection is an incentive-compatible proxy for purchasing local produce or imported goods. This choice is made in full awareness of the frictions that parents face to sourcing produce from farmers markets, versus the ease of a supermarket: the study measures the impact of the interventions on behavior change in their real context, not in a hypothetical, friction-free choice environment.
Political support for prioritization of local food
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Parents will be asked to rank order their preference for government policies among numerous (real) options -from job creation programs to climate change; embedded in that list will be a program for locally sourced produce for kids. Each arm's average ranking for the local produce option serves as the political support outcome measure.
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 10 Nov 2022.
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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.
Indhira Ramirez, MSc contact
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Awareness campaign - communications campaign and Online shopping in people with Nutrition Poor, run by Inter-American Development Bank.
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 2 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Nov 2022. 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?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Stephen Wendel, PhD (+254 715476334, steve.wendel@busaracenter.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Voucher Selection (time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year). The study lists 2 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 10 Nov 2022.