Title,Url,Last update date,Published at,First registered on,RCT_ID,DOI Number,Primary Investigator,Status,Start date,End date,Keywords,Country names,Other Primary Investigators,Jel code,Secondary IDs,Abstract,External Links,Sponsors,Partners,Intervention start date,Intervention end date,Intervention,Primary outcome end points,Primary outcome explanation,Secondary outcome end points,Secondary outcome explanation,Experimental design,Experimental design details,Randomization method,Randomization unit,Sample size number clusters,Sample size number observations,Sample size number arms,Minimum effect size,IRB,Analysis Plan Documents,Intervention completion date,Data collection completion,Data collection completion date,Number of clusters,Attrition correlated,Total number of observations,Treatment arms,Public data,Public data url,Program files,Program files url,Post trial documents csv,Relevant papers for csv Stimulating Fruit and Vegetable Intakes in Urban Ethiopia,http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3783,"January 25, 2019",2019-01-25 03:54:26 -0500,2019-01-22,AEARCTR-0003783,10.1257/rct.3783-1.0,Alan de Brauw a.debrauw@cgiar.org,on_going,2016-11-30,2019-10-31,"[""agriculture"", ""labor"", ""consumption"", ""nutrition"", ""information""]",Private,Kalle Hirvonen (k.hirvonen@cgiar.org) IFPRI; Gashaw Taddesse Abate (g.abate@cgiar.org) International Food Policy Research Institute,O12,"","Inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is now recognized as an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Ethiopia is one among the developing countries with the lowest intakes of fruits and vegetables. In Ethiopia, cereals and pulse largely dominate the food consumption baskets, while the consumption of animal-source foods and fruits and vegetables is rare. There are several factors that can potentially influence the consumption of fruits and vegetables in developing counties such as Ethiopia, including household income, price, access or availability, what consumers choose to purchase and consume, and consumer knowledge about the nutrition and health benefits of fruits and vegetables. This pilot experiment aims to address the knowledge gaps on the nutrition and health benefits of fruits and vegetables and thereby attempt to find ways to increase their consumption frequency and amount at the household level. In order to attain the above-mentioned objective—increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables —the experiment will implement a video-based behavioral change communication targeting a sample of households in Addis Ababa. The intervention will have two treatment arms besides the comparison group. Households in the first treatment arm will be trained on the recommended behaviors regarding the consumption of fruits and vegetables like the one by WHO—i.e. at least two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day. While this intervention mimics the current practice carried out by the public health extension workers in the country, it will be aided by a video medium that features local characters. Households in the second treatment arm will be trained about the established processes or mechanisms by which the consumption of fruits and vegetables can lead to a better nutrition and health outcomes, in addition to the recommended behaviors. This treatment is intended to address the why aspect in recommended behaviors, often overlooked in standard behavioral change communication approaches. ","","","",2019-03-01,2019-05-01,"The experiment will implement a video-based behavioral change communication targeting a sample of households in Addis Ababa. The intervention will have two treatment arms and a comparison group. Households in the first treatment arm will be trained on the recommended behaviors regarding the consumption of fruits and vegetables like the one by WHO—i.e. at least two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day. While this intervention mimics the current practice carried out by the public health extension workers in the country, it will be aided by a video medium that features local characters. Households in the second treatment arm will be trained about the established processes or mechanisms by which the consumption of fruits and vegetables can lead to a better nutrition and health outcomes, in addition to the recommended behaviors. This treatment is intended to address the why aspect in recommended behaviors, often overlooked in standard behavioral change communication approaches. ",nutrition knowledge and household consumption of fruits and vegetables are our key outcomes of interest,"A main finding from our preliminary work is that nutritional knowledge is weak among consumers in Addis Ababa, which may be a compelling reason that diets are poor. As a result, we are focusing on improvements in nutritional knowledge as a primary outcome that we believe is attainable through the interventions at hand. The same preliminary work has suggested that fruit and vegetable consumption are really low relative to international dietary recommendations, so we will measure their consumption at endline (they were not measured at baseline).","","","Our experimental design is to compare the two treatments described in earlier sections against a control group. As the video intervention can be shows to individuals on tablets, we will use individual level randomization stratified at the neighborhood level.","",Randomization will be done in an office using a computer (in Addis).,The randomization unit are individuals; we will have health agents ,40 neighborhoods within Addis Ababa,close to 1000 observations,1/3 in each of two treatments; 1/3 in the control group,"We have completed power calculations for the nutritional knowledge variables, which will be transformed into a normalized score based on the baseline data that have been collected. With 332 households per arm we can detect an 0.22 SD increase in nutrition knowledge score without controlling for additional covariates. ","Name: International Food Policy Research Institute Approval_number: N/A Approval_date: 2019-01-22 ",None,,,,"",,"","",,"",,"","",""