Behavioral Economics to Implement Nutrition Ranking in Food Pantries

ConditionsFood Insecurity Dietary Quality Behavioral Economics Implementation Science

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18-90

SponsorMassachusetts General Hospital

About this trial

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether using behavioral economic strategies to promote healthy food choices on a food bank's online ordering platform increases the use of the traffic light nutrition ranking system and increases healthier food selections by the food agencies (e.g., food pantries) who use the food bank.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Food agencies that order food from the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) online ordering platform.

Disqualifiers

Food agencies that do not order food from the GBFB online platform within 2 months of the start of the study.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Behavioral economics-enhanced user interface
Behavioral
The intervention changes the ordering platform visible to food agencies using behavioral economics strategies to promote healthier food choices.

Treatment groups

364 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Behavioral economics-enhanced user interfaceExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Usual user interfaceNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Healthy food agency orders from the food bank

This will be the change from baseline to 12 months in the percentage of foods ordered (by weight) that have green labels.

Time frame

12 months

Secondary outcomes

Proportion of agencies that ever used the traffic light label sorting or filtering when ordering from the food bank

This outcome will be the proportion of agencies in the intervention vs. control group that report using the traffic-light sorting/filtering when making orders during the 12 month intervention period.

Time frame

12 months

Sponsors and contacts

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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