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Behavioral Economics to Implement a Traffic Light Nutrition Ranking System: Study 2

NCT06298253 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3750

Last updated 2025-04-30

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Summary

This is a cluster randomized controlled trial of 30 food pantries affiliated with the Greater Boston Food Bank to test the use of behavioral economics (BE) tools to encourage food pantries to implement the Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP) program, with the goal of fostering accurate use of SWAP traffic light labels on pantry shelves and increasing the healthfulness of foods chosen by pantry clients. Primary outcomes will be assessed at 6 and 12 months to compare the implementation and effectiveness of the SWAP program in the intervention vs. control pantries.

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity
  • Implementation Science
  • Diet, Healthy
  • Behavioral Economics

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral economics-enhanced SWAP implementation

Intervention will include behavioral nudges at baseline and over 12 months to promote use of the SWAP nutrition program for pantries.

BEHAVIORAL

Basic SWAP implementation

Intervention will include basic information about the SWAP program and encouragement to obtain SWAP toolkits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anne N Thorndike, MD, MPH · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-10-01
Primary Completion
2027-06-01
Completion
2028-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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