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| Name | Class |
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| Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom | OTHER |
| C H & Co Ltd. | INDUSTRY |
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Encouraging individuals to eat fruit and vegetables is difficult. However, recent evidence suggests that using social-based information might help. For instance, it has been shown that if people think that others are eating lots of fruit and vegetables, that they will consume more food to match the 'norm'.The purpose of this study was to determine whether social norm messages could be used to enhance vegetable purchases in workplace restaurants, in an observational study.
In this study the investigators hypothesised that placing posters containing social norm messages promoting vegetable consumption in three workplace restaurants, would increase the purchase of meals with vegetables, and that this effect would be sustained over time. The investigators recruited three restaurants to this study. For two weeks (Pre-intervention phase) the investigators used till receipts to monitor the number of meals sold with or without vegetables at baseline. For the following two weeks (Intervention phase) the investigators placed social norms posters around the three restaurants, while continuing to collect till receipts. After this, the posters were removed, and receipts were monitored for a final two weeks (Post-intervention).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Workplace Restaurant Customers | 1 Group (Workplace Restaurant Customers) across 3 sites (data to be combined at end of study) Study consists of three phases:
All phases lasted two weeks and included monitoring till receipts for meals (these were automatically generated and held on the tills electronically). The intervention phase consisted of posters being displayed in the restaurants, featuring a Social Norms Poster. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Social Norms Poster | Other | A poster containing a social norms message: "Most people here choose to eat vegetables with their lunch" |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Percentage of meals containing vegetables | 7 months |
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Customers at workplace restaurants.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Jason M Thomas, PhD | University of Birmingham | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Birmingham | Birmingham | West Midlands | B15 2TT | United Kingdom |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 28541071 | Derived | Thomas JM, Ursell A, Robinson EL, Aveyard P, Jebb SA, Herman CP, Higgs S. Using a descriptive social norm to increase vegetable selection in workplace restaurant settings. Health Psychol. 2017 Nov;36(11):1026-1033. doi: 10.1037/hea0000478. Epub 2017 May 25. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D005247 | Feeding Behavior |
| ID | Term |
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| D001522 | Behavior, Animal |
| D001519 | Behavior |
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