Mobile app increases vegetable-based preparations by low-income household cooks: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We built an app to help clients of food pantries. The app offers vegetable-based recipes, food tips and no-cost strategies for making mealtimes healthier and for bargain-conscious grocery shopping, among other themes. Users customize materials to meet their own preferences. The app, available in English and Spanish, has been tested in a randomized field trial.

Design

A randomized controlled trial with repeated measures across 10 weeks.

Setting

Clients of fifteen community food pantry distributions in Los Angeles County, USA.ParticipantsDistributions were randomized to control and experimental conditions, and 289 household cooks and one of their 9-14-year-old children were enrolled as participants. Experimental dyads were given a smartphone with our app and a

SUBMITTER: Clarke P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6521788 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature