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The purpose of this research is to study how the price of foods affects food buying choices at the grocery store. The researchers are interested in this topic because the price of foods can have a big impact on what people choose to buy and prices change over time. The researchers are doing this study to see how changes in food prices affect what foods mothers choose for their families.
It is well known that the price of a given food affects the amount of that food an individual purchases. However, little is known about how specific groups, such as overweight/obese and those with lower incomes, change their food purchasing decisions depending on food price changes. Evidence has shown that these groups have lower quality diets and worse health outcomes than their normal weight and higher income counterparts. Therefore, it is important to gain a better understanding of how food price changes affect purchasing decisions among these populations in order to develop targeted nutrition interventions to improve their diet quality. To investigate this, the researchers will create a laboratory-based grocery store, in which pictures of foods will be used to substitute actual food. Food prices will be indicated on each picture. Participants will be given play money and a budget, and ask them to "purchase" foods in the mock grocery store. The price of food will be changed throughout the study to investigate how participants change their purchasing decisions based on these price changes.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Own-Price Elasticity | Experimental | The price of fruit will vary (own-price elasticity) while the price of all other foods in the "mock" grocery store will remain constant. |
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| Cross-Price Elasticity | Experimental | The price of fruit will remain constant while the price of other foods in the "mock" grocery store will vary (cross-price elasticity). |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Own-Price Elasticity | Other | The price of fruit will be 75%, 100%, or 125% of the reference price, but the price of other foods will remain the same. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Price elasticity of fruit | Percent change in the amount of fruit purchased (gram weight) for every percent change in the price of a given food. | Baseline |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Nutrient density of purchased foods | Ratio of low nutrient-dense food purchases to high nutrient-dense food purchases | Baseline |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| James Roemmich, PhD | USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center | Grand Forks | North Dakota | 58203 | United States |
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| Type | Includes Protocol | Includes SAP | Includes ICF | Document Label | Document Date | Document Uploaded Date | Document File Name |
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| ICF | No | No | Yes | Informed Consent Form | Aug 16, 2019 | Jan 18, 2022 | ICF_000.pdf |
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| ID | Term |
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| D050177 | Overweight |
| D009765 | Obesity |
| ID | Term |
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| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D001835 | Body Weight |
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This study will utilize a three factor design, with one between-subject factor and two within-subject factors. The between-subject factor is participation in a federal food assistance program. The within-subject factors are price change condition and price change scenario.
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| Cross-Price Elasticity | Other | The price of fruit will remain the same, but the price of other foods will be 75%, 100%, or 125% of the reference price. |
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| D012816 |
| Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |