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Improving employees’ diets by changing the size and availability of foods in workplace cafeterias

Impact of increasing availability of healthier foods and reducing portion sizes on energy purchased in worksite cafeterias: a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN87225572
Enrollment
19
Registered
2019-05-24
Start date
2019-05-27
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-10-04

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Excess energy intake Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

There will be a four-week baseline period in which data are recorded without any intervention. Two sites per week, selected by the randomisation, will begin the first intervention phase (Availability)

Sponsors

University of Cambridge
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The study does not use individual-level data; therefore any people attending the cafeterias are eligible. The inclusion criteria for the cafeterias are: 1. At least 350 employees 2. Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) tills which are able to record electronic sales data 3. Cafeteria is based in a distribution centre that belongs to the UK supermarket chain that we have partnered with for this project

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Sites not meeting the inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Total energy (kcal) purchased from intervention food categories per day after controlling for the total transactions. This measure is calculated from the total number of sales for all items within an intervention food category and the total number of calories for each of these items. Sales data are recorded using electronic tills every day of operation during the trial.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Total energy (kcal) purchased per day of analysis from (a) non-intervention food categories, and (b) all food and drink products, after controlling for the total sales/transactions. This measure is calculated from the total number of sales for all items within an intervention food category and the total number of calories for each of these items. Sales data are recorded using electronic tills every day of operation during the trial. 2. Total revenue from each cafeteria. This is calculated from the number of all items sold in the cafeterias and the price of each of these items. These data will be collected using the electronic tills for every day of operation for all cafeterias during the length of the trial. 3. Overall sales data from any vending machines located in each distribution centre. This consists of the total number of individual product sales from vending machines across each distribution centre (i.e. the wider building that houses the cafeterias in which we are intervening). These data will be collected every day of operation for all distribution centres during the length of the trial.

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 1, 2026