Barriers and Facilitators to Vegetable Intake

Barriers and Facilitators to Following the Dietary Guidelines for Vegetable Intake: Follow-up of an Intervention to Increase Vegetable Consumption

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03607526

Enrollment

Registered

2018-07-31

Start date

2018-06-26

Completion date

2019-05-06

Last updated

2022-02-02

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Conditions

Obese, Overweight

Keywords

Vegetable Intake

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to find out why people do or do not eat vegetables.

Detailed description

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) stress the importance of a diet high in fruits and vegetables (FV) to achieve health benefits. Despite the recommendations, adherence is low; only 12% of the population meets the recommendation for fruits and even less of the population (9%) meets the recommendation for vegetables. Recently, it was found that vegetable consumption increased when individuals were provided the recommended daily amounts while participating in a clinical study, but returned to pre-study low levels when vegetables were no longer supplied. This result suggests that habitual consumption of FV is strongly regulated by behaviors influenced by social, environmental, and/or individual factors. Therefore, identifying regulatory factors of vegetable consumption will greatly assist in developing successful strategies to increase vegetable intake to achieve health benefits. The overall objective of this study is to examine both barriers and facilitators to adherence to consuming DGA-recommended amounts of vegetables in participants who completed a randomized controlled trial with provided vegetables or who were in a control group, using the Nominal Group Technique (NGT).

Interventions

OTHERBarriers

NGT sessions identifying barriers to vegetable intake.

OTHERFacilitators

NGT sessions identifying facilitators to vegetable intake.

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

OTHER

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Participant in NCT02585102 who gave permission to be contacted for a follow-up study.

Exclusion criteria

* Did not participate in NCT02585102. * Participant in NCT02585102 who did not give permission to be contacted for a follow-up study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Barriers and facilitators to vegetable consumption	2 hours	NGT results providing an exhaustive list of barriers and facilitators to meeting the DGA for vegetable consumption.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026