Clinical trials: Food Choice
Calorie Consumption
Dietary and Cognitive Effects of Food Ads Posted by TikTok Influencers
Randomized and controlled experimental study to evaluate how influencer food ads on TikTok affect calorie purchases among youth (ages 10-13).
- Trial name
- NCT05777486
- Testing
- TikTok Ads - With Food, TikTok Ads - Without Food
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Food Selection, Obesity
Changing Portion Size Descriptions in a Cafeteria
The goal of this this intervention is to test the degree to which a portion size labeling intervention influences consumer selection of smaller portions at two large cafés.
- Conditions
- Food Selection, Obesity, Weight Gain, Food Preferences
- Trial name
- NCT06263621
- Testing
- Intervention "Standard"
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 101,481 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Childhood Obesity
Child Friendly Menu Labelling and Food Choices
Childhood obesity is a major problem in Canada. Children are eating larger portions and have easier access to high-fat, high-sugar foods and drinks. Menu labelling is a promising tool to teach families about healthier choices.
- Trial name
- MealTrain (NCT02692001)
- Testing
- Intervention MealTrain menu
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 163 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Diet, Physical Activity
An Interactive Web-Based Program to Improve Food and Activity Choices of Teens
This study will test a website for teens designed to help them improve both diet and physical activity. The website will have several components: educational messages, role model stories, goal setting, self-monitoring forms…
- Trial name
- Teen Web (NCT00983567)
- Testing
- teen web
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Obesity
Making Calories Count: Information Format and Food Choice
The purpose of the study is to better understand how individuals make decisions regarding the meals they order. Participants' ordering decisions at lunchtime at a chain restaurant will be recorded over several weeks to study…
- Trial name
- NCT01346449
- Testing
- Provide menu with visual cue and calorie information, Provide menu with visual cue but no calorie information, Provide menu with no visual cue but with calorie information
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 292 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Food Choice
Delays to Influence Snack Choice
The pervasiveness of high-calorie, nutrient-poor snacks in the environment is believed to have contributed to the epidemic levels of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the U.S.
- Trial name
- DISC (NCT02359916)
- Testing
- Time delays on delivery of less healthy snacks, 25%/$0.25 discount on healthy snacks, 25%/$0.25 tax on less healthy snacks
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32,662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
Food Preferences, Food Selection
Increasing Food Literacy in Preschoolers to Reduce Obesity Risk
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of a nutrition education program on preschool children's food literacy and food acceptance, and to examine the added influence of a healthy eating curriculum and parent…
- Conditions
- Food Preferences, Food Selection, Eating, Healthy, Obesity, Childhood
- Trial name
- NCT05977348
- Testing
- Healthy Eating Curriculum, Improving the Classroom Food and Mealtime Environment, Parent Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 770 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Children, Only, Behavior, Eating
School Lunch Salad Bars and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The investigators propose an efficacy study (i.e., do salad bars work under controlled conditions in naturalistic settings) to test whether introducing salad bars in elementary, middle, and high schools that have never had salad…
- Conditions
- Children, Only, Behavior, Eating, School, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT03283033
- Testing
- New salad bar, Marketing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7,491 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Children, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Fruit and Vegetable Study - Pilot
Arizona State University is studying how local schools and grocery stores can work together to promote fruits and vegetables and support healthy eating among children and families.
- Conditions
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Children, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, Fruit and Vegetable Selection in the Lunchroom, Caregiver Nutrition
- Trial name
- FFVP+ Pilot (NCT07727746)
- Testing
- FFVP+, FFVP-only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 880 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Sleep, Food Habits
Sleep Duration and Quality in Children
Obesity in children is a priority of public health initiatives, and reliable obesity prevalence and severity assessments are needed for policy decisions and study directions.
- Conditions
- Sleep, Food Habits, Lifestyle Factors
- Trial name
- Sleep-FAST (NCT05652829)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ultra-Processed Food Consumption, Obesity Prevention
Sustainable and AI-Enabled Adolescents and Youth-Centred Interventions to Upgrade Food Choices and Promote Healthy, Sustainable Diets
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence (AI)-supported, context-aware digital nudging intervention designed to reduce ultra-processed food consumption and improve dietary sustainability among…
- Conditions
- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption, Obesity Prevention, Dietary Behaviour, Unhealthy Diet
- Trial name
- STAY-UP (NCT07514312)
- Testing
- Artificial intelligence-supported digital nudging
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Gelisim University
Food Acceptance, Soy Milk
Acceptability of Soy Milk as a Calcium-Rich Beverage in School Children in New York City Public Schools
NYC Public Schools is testing offering soy milk alongside dairy milk on the lunch line for all students during the month of May at select school sites to understand: Whether students choose and drink soy milk Whether offering soy…
- Conditions
- Food Acceptance, Soy Milk, Schools, New York
- Trial name
- NCT07595562
- Testing
- Acceptability of soy milk
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Dietary Assessment, Growth
Nutrition of Urban-poor Children
The investigators undertook a program to promote the consumption of healthy foods and reduce the prevalence of malnutrition of children below the age of 5 years in an urban-poor community, by 10% year-on-year through nutrition…
- Conditions
- Dietary Assessment, Growth, Nutritional Assessment
- Trial name
- NCT06921135
- Testing
- supplementation, food
- Where
- Malaysia
- Volunteers
- 320 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Malaya
Nutrition Intervention
Rewarding Healthy Food Choices: a Mobile Serious Game Intervention in Adolescents
The aim of this study is to conduct an outcome and process evaluation of the REWARD intervention, a serious game intervention using reward-based strategies as a main method to trigger healthy snacking in Flemish adolescents.
- Trial name
- REWARD (NCT02622165)
- Testing
- The REWARD serious game intervention
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 1,463 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Food Selection
Evaluation of a Healthy Food Procurement Policy at Municipality-level in Nepal
The rise in chronic diseases is attributed to unhealthy eating high in sugar, salt and saturated fats, which is facilitated by the availability and consumption of these unhealthy foods.
- Trial name
- NCT05664256
- Testing
- Build capacity of canteen, Information, Education and Communication materials, Monitoring visit
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 402 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences
Food Preferences
Effects of Sugary Drink Warning Labels on Parent Choices
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are a significant contributor to adult and childhood obesity. Policies to place health warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages are being pursued, but there is little empirical data on how such…
- Trial name
- NCT04259385
- Testing
- Exposure to sugar-sweetened beverage warning labels, Exposure to beverage calorie information
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Behavior, Child, Food Selection
Nudging for Behavior Change in School Cafeterias
The main purpose of this research is to look at a school lunchroom intervention that is known to improve fruit, vegetable, and milk consumption and see how it changes in the long run and if it affects the child's behavior…
- Trial name
- NCT04156542
- Testing
- Basic School Lunchroom Nudges
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Healthy
Effect of Nutrition Labeling on Fast Food Choices
A study examining menu choices made at fast food restaurants.
- Trial name
- NCT00127660
- Testing
- Menu: calories=yes, value pricing=no, Menu: calories=yes, value pricing = yes, Menu: calories=no, value pricing = no
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 605 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Food Selection, Food Choices
Influence of Social Media Ads on Food Choice - Master Protocol
This is a Master ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol for study 20-01796: Aim 1: Examining Influence of Social Media Ads on Black and White Adolescents' Food Choices - Study 1 (NCT05380505) Aim 2: A Randomized Trial to Examine the…
- Conditions
- Food Selection, Food Choices, Calorie Consumption
- Trial name
- NCT07249398
- Testing
- Racially Congruent Ads, Racially Incongruent Ads, Black Ads
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,650 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Food Choices
Shopping Smart - Adolescent Intervention to Improve Shopping Practices Where You Live and Learn
The objective of this project is to develop and test the effectiveness of a Cooperative Extension enhanced intervention titled "Smart Shopping," aimed at improving the shopping practices of adolescents with the ultimate goal of…
- Trial name
- NCT02793024
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Alison Gustafson