Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2023
Effects of Sugary Beverage Text and Pictorial Warnings: A Randomized Trial.
Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03648138 (Testing the Influence of Different Sugary Drink Warning Label Designs), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Testing the Influence of Different Sugary Drink Warning Label Designs
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling for Foods and Beverages Marketed to Children: Behavioral, Nutritional, and Cognitive-Affective Outcomes and Methodological Quality-A Systematic Review.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluating text, icon, and graphic nutrition labels: An eye tracking experiment with Latino adults in the US.Appetite · 2025Article
- Associations Between Knowledge of Health Conditions and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among US Adults, 2021.Nutrients · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionMultiple U.S. localities have introduced legislation requiring sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) warnings. This study effects of different warning designs on beverage selections and perceptions. STUDY
designThe study was an RCT. SETTING/
participantsAn online virtual convenience store and survey were used with a nationally representative sample of primary caregivers of 6-11-year-olds (n=961). Data were collected in January 2020 and analyzed in May-July 2020.
interventionParticipants were randomized to view SSBs with 1 of 4 front-of-package label designs: (1) no-warning control, (2) health-related text warning, (3) sugar pictorial warning (image of beverage sugar content in cubes/teaspoons/packets with health-related warning text), or (4) health pictorial warning (image of possible health consequences of overconsuming SSBs with health-related warning text).
main outcome measuresOutcomes included participants' beverage choice for their child and perceptions of beverages, their assigned labels, and warning policies.
resultsProportionally fewer participants chose a SSB in the sugar pictorial warning condition (-13.4 percentage points; 95% CI= -21.6 to -0.1 percentage points; p=0.007) and in the health pictorial warning condition (-14.7 percentage points; 95% CI= -22.8 to -0.1 percentage points; p=0.004) compared to the control. Sugar pictorial warnings led to more accurate added-sugar content estimates than all conditions and greater label trust and support for sugar-sweetened beverage warning policies than health pictorial warnings.
conclusionsSSB warning policies may be most effective if they mandate images of beverages' added sugar content accompanied by warning text.
trial registrationThis study is registered at www. CLINICALTRIALS: gov NCT03648138.
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