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Nutrition Education for Low-Income Healthy Participants Who Eat an Unhealthy Diet

NCT00301691 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2000

Last updated 2013-07-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Decreasing the amount of fat in the diet and increasing fruit and vegetable intake may help prevent some types of cancer. Giving low-income participants easy-to-read written nutrition materials and an instructional and motivational videotape may help improve eating habits.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well nutrition education improves the eating habits of low-income healthy participants who eat an unhealthy diet.

Conditions

  • Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

behavioral dietary intervention

OTHER

educational intervention

OTHER

preventative dietary intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Brown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kim M. Gans, PhD, MPH, LDN · Brown University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-09-30
Completion
2006-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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