Nutricity: A Pilot Study to Improve Parental Nutrition Literacy

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · Sep 13, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

Nutricity website: Nutricity is a mobile website that uses communication techniques that break down each section to teach parents and children the nutrition information. The site addresses five components of nutrition literacy:

1. ability to comprehend nutrition text
2. eating foods in the right portions
3. using food labels to make nutrition decisions
4. grouping foods into like categories
5. choosing between similar foods (consumer skills)

Participants will have three months of free access to Nutricity during this study. They will also be encouraged to set one nutrition goal per week an...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Parents must be English speaking and must 1) Identify as primary food decision-maker for the home, 2) Have internet access at home and 3) Must have a device for accessing the internet. Smartphones, owned by \~75-92% of the target population, are adequate to satisfy the latter two criteria.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1) Overt cognitive or psychiatric illness, 2) Visual impairments that preclude reading survey instruments or using a tablet, 3) Child illness requiring a highly restrictive diet, such as renal disease, celiac disease, etc., 4) Planning to travel internationally during the study, 5) child is a foster child or ward of the state.