Dietary Modification
Conditions
Keywords
Menu Labelling;, Nutrition Education;, dietary assessment tools;
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALparticipants' food choices
just recorded the participants' food choices in the school cafeteria
BEHAVIORALmenu labelling without nutrition education
The investigators provided every participant with a menu labeling without any interpretation and recorded their dietary selections
BEHAVIORALmenu labelling with nutrition education
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.
Sponsors
Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | up to six weeks | 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. |
Outcome results
None listed