Can A Nutrition Education Immersion Program Foster Sustainable Improvements in Clinical Parameters Over Time?

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Immersion program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03320551

IRB201702439

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nutrition and Education Immersion program sponsored by WholeFoods, Inc. for their employees.

Full description

An ongoing Nutrition and Education Immersion program is currently ongoing that is supported by Whole Foods, Inc. for their employees. Eighty employees have previously agreed to attend a one week nutrition education and immersion program October 14-21, 2017. This program will involve nutrition education seminars, exercise and support classes that they are scheduled to attend. All meals are provided. They will all be 100% plant based with low oil. All employees will complete a dietary survey at the beginning of the study. Clinical parameters will be tested at start and end of the program. The majority of the lectures are CME certified by Rush University.

All participants will be approached for participation on day one to allow for the collection of the data being obtained as part of the existing project. In addition to the data from the program, this project will include a lab draw for nutritional markers at baseline and at the end of the immersion program, a dietary survey, SF-36, and DASI at baseline. Participants will be contacted by phone at months 3 and 6 and will be asked to complete the dietary survey, SF-36, and DASI. In addition, self-reported weight will be collected, and occurrence of health events (hospitalizations, new diagnoses). This will end their participation.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18yrs or older
• all comers with and without cardiovascular disease risk factors
• are attending the one week lifestyle immersion program sponsored by Whole Foods

Exclusion criteria

-unwilling to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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73 participants in 1 patient group

Nutrition Education Immersion Program

Experimental group

Description:

Assessing if a one week lifestyle interventions can lead to long term health benefits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Immersion program