Compliance to the Norwegian Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Young Females

University of Oslo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Modification

Treatments: Other: NFBDG

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02416284

ERN4120_2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Norwegian Directorate of Health recently published the Norwegian food-based dietary guidelines (NFBDG) in 2011. The target for the NFBDG is the general population, and the main aims of these guidelines are to promote public health and prevent chronic degenerative diseases. Reaching the healthy population is crucial as only small proportion of the general population comply to the current public dietary advice in Norway. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate whether a multi-faceted dietary intervention could increase compliance to the NFBDG and affect biomarkers of chronic degenerative diseases in a healthy population.

Full description

The study was conducted as part of a master level course in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Oslo. Thus, the main objective of the study was to teach the master students about planning, conducting and analysing data from a clinical trial. The students themselves are subjects of the study, however the participation in the study was voluntary and did in no way affect the approval of the course.

Since the primary objective of the study was teaching, the study was confirmed by the "Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics" (REC) to be exempt from REC approval.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female

Exclusion criteria

• serious chronic disease requiring medication
• pregnancy

Trial design

14 participants in 1 patient group

NFBDG

Experimental group

Description:

Multi-faceted, 2 week intervention to increase compliance to the NFBDG.

Treatment:

Other: NFBDG