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Delays to Influence Snack Choice

NCT02359916 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 32662

Last updated 2018-02-23

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Summary

The pervasiveness of high-calorie, nutrient-poor snacks in the environment is believed to have contributed to the epidemic levels of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the U.S. This project tests whether a novel snack vending machine system that uses brief time delays to reduce the immediacy of reward from unhealthy snacks will improve the healthfulness of snack choices. If successful, this project will identify a new environmental intervention that could contribute substantially to obesity and cardiometabolic disease prevention efforts in schools, worksites, and other settings.

Conditions

  • Food Choice

Interventions

OTHER

Time delays on delivery of less healthy snacks

OTHER

25%/$0.25 discount on healthy snacks

OTHER

25%/$0.25 tax on less healthy snacks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rush University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bradley M Appelhans, PhD · Associate Professor

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-30
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2016-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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