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Make It Fresh, for Less! A Supermarket Meal Bundling and Electronic Reminder Intervention to Promote Healthy Purchases Among Families With Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effects of a supermarket meal bundling and electronic reminder intervention on food choices of families with children.

Design

Quasi-experimental (meal bundling) and randomized, controlled trial (electronic reminders).

Setting

Large supermarket in Maine during 40-week baseline and 16-week intervention periods in 2015-2016.

Participants

English-speaking adults living with at least 1 child aged ≤18 years (n = 300) with 25% of households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Intervention(s)

(1) Four bundles of ingredients needed to make 8 low-cost healthful meals were promoted in the store through displays and point-of-purchase messaging for 4 weeks each; (2) weekly electronic messages based on principles from behavioral psychology were sent to study participants reminding them to look for meal bundles in the store.

Main outcome measures

(1) Difference in storewide sales and individual purchases of bundled items (measured using supermarket loyalty card data) from baseline to intervention in intervention vs control groups.

Analysis

Regressions controlling for total food spending and accounting for repeated measures.

Results

There were no differences in spending on bundled items resulting from the meal bundling intervention or the electronic reminders.

Conclusions and implications

Overall, there was little impact of healthful meal bundles and electronic reminders on storewide sales or purchases of promoted items in a large supermarket.

SUBMITTER: Moran AJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461501 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Make It Fresh, for Less! A Supermarket Meal Bundling and Electronic Reminder Intervention to Promote Healthy Purchases Among Families With Children.

Moran Alyssa J AJ Khandpur Neha N Polacsek Michele M Thorndike Anne N AN Franckle Rebecca L RL Boulos Rebecca R Sampson Sally S Greene Julie C JC Blue Dan G DG Rimm Eric B EB

Journal of nutrition education and behavior 20190212 4

<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the effects of a supermarket meal bundling and electronic reminder intervention on food choices of families with children.<h4>Design</h4>Quasi-experimental (meal bundling) and randomized, controlled trial (electronic reminders).<h4>Setting</h4>Large supermarket in Maine during 40-week baseline and 16-week intervention periods in 2015-2016.<h4>Participants</h4>English-speaking adults living with at least 1 child aged ≤18 years (n = 300) with 25% of households partici ...[more]

PMID: 30765298

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Dataset Information

Make It Fresh, for Less! A Supermarket Meal Bundling and Electronic Reminder Intervention to Promote Healthy Purchases Among Families With Children.

Objective

Design

Setting

Participants

Intervention(s)

Main outcome measures

Analysis

Results

Conclusions and implications

Publications

Make It Fresh, for Less! A Supermarket Meal Bundling and Electronic Reminder Intervention to Promote Healthy Purchases Among Families With Children.

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