A Sustainable Diet for Hadassah Employees Workers

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physical Activity; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutritional and Activity Promotion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01686399

HMO 0645-11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this protocol is to use a multidisciplinary approach to convey nutrition and activity messages to randomly selected Hadassah Medical Center employees. The intervention will be for one academic year and include frontal talks, email and internet focus group interactions, public demonstrations and a focused intervention within the hospital kitchen.

The outcomes are specific parameters of dietary modifications, degree of physical activity and health related perspectives. Outcomes will be recorded at baseline and by the end of the intervention ( one year).

Full description

The participants will be selected randomly from the campus employees. They will be exposed to multiple levels of health promotion at the work place as well as via multiple media tools. Analysis will be performed at baseline by using multiple nutrition and health perception questionnaires. A second group from the employees will be selected for assessment of the same outcomes at the end of the year.

Enrollment: 450 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 67 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Hadassah medical center employees Age 21-67

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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450 participants in 1 patient group

The study has a single arm

Experimental group

Description:

The study has one arm The whole population of the campus will be exposed to the intervention. the effectiveness will be assessed using a random selection twice - before and after the intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutritional and Activity Promotion