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Evaluating Food Messaging Campaigns for Young Adults

NCT07768488 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 750

Last updated 2026-08-17

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Summary

This study aims to determine whether online social media campaigns improve diet quality among young adults. Young adults will be exposed to one of three social media campaigns.

Conditions

  • Social Media
  • Diet Quality
  • Diet Intervention
  • Communication
  • Young Adults
  • Nutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Counter-marketing

Participants will receive messages focused on exposing and undermining deceptive, harmful, or misleading marketing practices used by food companies to sell unhealthy foods. Messages are delivered via Instagram posts.

BEHAVIORAL

Health education

Participants will receive messages about the health consequences of sugary drinks and processed snack foods. Messages are delivered via Instagram posts.

BEHAVIORAL

Control (neutral) messages

Participants will receive messages describing neutral topic unrelated to food (fire and home safety). Messages are delivered via Instagram posts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • Stanford University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anna H. Grummon · Stanford School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2027-09-30
Primary Completion
2029-04-30
Completion
2029-04-30

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