- Title
- Impact of Nudge Strategies on Nutrition Education Participation in Child Care: Randomized Controlled Trial
- Creator
- Grady, Alice; Barnes, Courtney; Lum, Melanie; Jones, Jannah; Yoong, Sze Lin
- Relation
- ARC.DE170100382 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170100382
- Relation
- Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Vol. 53, Issue 2, p. 151-156
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2020.11.017
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Objective: To assess the impact of incorporating nudge strategies in the design of a nutrition education workshop invitation on workshop registration among early childhood education and care centers. Methods: A parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted with 88 centers. Centers received nudge strategies embedded within an enhanced invitation (intervention) or a generic invitation (control) to attend a nutrition education workshop. Center workshop registration and invitation recall and acceptability were compared between the 2 arms. Results: No statistically significant differences in workshop registration (25% vs 20%; P = 0.61), invitation recall (69% vs 62%; P = 0.58) or acceptability (mean: 8.38 vs 8.06; P = 0.50) were found between intervention and control centers, respectively. Conclusions and Implications: Low-intensity behavioral strategies embedded in the design of an invitation were insufficient to increase workshop registration significantly. Investigation and application of alternate evidence-based nudge strategies to encourage staff participation in nutrition education in early childhood education and care setting are recommended.
- Subject
- child care; guidelines; nutrition; nudge; randomized controlled trial
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1454415
- Identifier
- uon:44934
- Identifier
- ISSN:1499-4046
- Language
- eng
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