Improvement on consumers' ability to correctly identify products with excessive amounts of sugars, fats, and sodium, to correctly identify the product option that is the least harmful to health, and to choose to purchase the least harmful choices or none of them options if they are all harmful. Other
Conditions
Interventions
Allocation is random at equal rate (1/4) to four study groups (three experimental and the control group). The randomisation of the experimental conditions and groups was completed adopting a Williams
Sponsors
World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adults residing in El Salvador aged 18 years old or older
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Visually impaired people 2. Persons unable to give informed consent 3. People who deny being part of this study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measured by responses of participants to the stimuli in different experimental/control groups, and responses obtained from respondents by the interviewers by means of the application of a structured questionnaire after they were shown two-dimensional images of mock-up products: 1. The participant's decision to buy products 2. The correct identification of sugars, sodium and/or saturated fats found to be in excess in the products | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Sociodemographic variables, including gender, age and education level by a structured questionnaire after seeing the mock-up products | — |
Countries
El Salvador
Outcome results
None listed