The purpose of this study is to test two different approaches to helping individuals who have recently starting eating a healthful diet maintain those healthy changes. This study will deliver a health program using an automated telephone system. The programs will be designed to help individuals maintain a healthy diet change for a lifetime.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Cancer	Behavior: Social Cognitive Based Intervention	Phase I

Further Study Details: 

Primary Outcomes: The study hypothesis is that the goal systems intervention will out perform the social cognitive intervention and that both of these interventions will outperform the control group for fruit and vegetable consumption.
Secondary Outcomes: Intervention effects will be mediated by behavioral factors predicted by Social Cognitive Theory and Goal Systems Theory.
Expected Total Enrollment:  1531

Ages Eligible for Study:  18 Years and above,  Genders Eligible for Study:  Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Consume fewer than 5 fruits and vegetables per day.
• Understand conversational English
• Have the ability to use a telephone without assistance

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18 years of age
• Diagnosis of a health condition for which dietary recommendations in the would be contraindicated,
• Have cognitive impairment
• Have a terminal illness, recent myocardial infarction, current or former diagnosis of an eating disorder, pregnancy
• Consume > 5 servings of fruit and vegetable per day, or
• Plan to move away from the Boston area in less than 30 months.

Please refer to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov identifier  NCT00148525

Massachusetts
      Boston Medical Center, Boston,  Massachusetts,  02118,  United States

Study chairs or principal investigators

Robert Friedman, MD,  Principal Investigator,  Boston University Medical Center   

Study ID Numbers:  R01 CA105832-02; National Cancer Institute
Last Updated:  September 7, 2005
Record first received:  September 6, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:  NCT00148525
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2005-09-13