Medical College Students' Responds to Menu Labeling

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine120 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.

1. The investigators improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools and utilized the improved approach to evaluate participants' calorie and nutrients intake. 2. A pre-post non-controlled study design was implemented in the medical college and was divided into three stages: just recording the dietary selection in the three meals daily, recording the dietary selection with the provision of menu labeling accompanying with or without nutrition education. The investigators adopted photographs-based dietary assessment tools and a mobile phone application 'WeChat' was utilized as the photographs and nutrition knowledge transfer platform. Two professional researchers respectively read the received photographs and calculated participants' calorie and nutrients intake.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Dietary Modification

Interventions

participants' food choicesBEHAVIORAL

just recorded the participants' food choices in the school cafeteria

menu labelling without nutrition educationBEHAVIORAL

The investigators provided every participant with a menu labeling without any interpretation and recorded their dietary selections

menu labelling with nutrition educationBEHAVIORAL

The investigators not only sent a menu labeling to every participant, but also delivered nutrition education to participants by providing them with nutrition and health knowledge through WeChat daily.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Grade 2012, 2013 undergraduate students and Grade 2013 graduate students Exclusion Criteria: * Participants who sent the photographs less than six times in any one of the three meals at any stage * Participants who did not complete their questionnaires * Participants who withdrew from the experiment at any stage

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Descriptive Name of Scale: Composite outcome measure of calorie (kcal/day), protein(g/day), fat intake (g/day) and carbohydrate intake (g/day) of participants

Through the receiving photographs the participants took about their three meals, the investigators estimated the calorie content (kcal/day), protein content (g/day), fat content (g/day), carbohydrate content (g/day) participants ate.

Time frame: up to six weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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