Diet, Food, Exercise and Nutrition During Social Distancing (DFEND)

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Healthy Eating; Healthy Lifestyle; Mood; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized coaching; Behavioral: Weekly behavior modification challenges; Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04754074

DFEND3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our long-term goal is to contribute to the development of evidence-based nutritional and physical activity recommendations for the prevention and management of overweight and obesity and related chronic diseases.

The overall objective for this study is to determine if a 20-week educational program, project DFEND, related to behavior change and health will improve nutrition and physical activity outcomes as well as indicators of wellbeing.

Our central hypothesis is that regular attendance of weekly lectures, weekly meetings with personalized coaches, and weekly health challenges via virtual platforms (e.g. Zoom, Facebook, YouTube) will improve health outcomes related to nutrition and physical activity.

Our rationale for these studies is that the results of this research will enhance the potential to develop evidence-based nutritional and physical activity behavioral recommendations to treat and/or prevent development of overweight and obesity.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resides in Arkansas
• All ethnicities
• Female and male

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 1 patient group

Behavioral Education and personalized coaching

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education

Behavioral: Weekly behavior modification challenges

Behavioral: Personalized coaching