Comparison of Sales From Vending Machines With 4 Different Food and Beverage Messages: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Point-of-sale food messaging can encourage healthier purchases, but no studies have directly compared multiple interventions in the field.

Objective

To examine which of 4 food and beverage messages would increase healthier vending machine purchases.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized trial assessed 13 months (February 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020) of vending sales data from 267 machines and 1065 customer purchase assessments from vending machines on government property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Data analysis was performed from March 5, 2020, to November 8, 2022.

Interventions

Study interventions were 4 food and beverage messaging systems: (1) beverage tax posters encouraging healthy choices because of the Philadelphia tax on swee

SUBMITTER: Gibson LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11079689 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature