Fibre and Mental Wellbeing Feasibility Trial

University of Reading

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Affect (Mental Function)

Anxiety

Sleep

Stress

Treatments

Other: Fibre arm

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06899607

2025-037-PH

Details and patient eligibility

About

This feasibility study will explore whether adding an extra 10 grams of fibre to participants' daily diet for two weeks would improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Full description

The current pre-post single-arm feasibility trial will investigate whether increasing daily fibre intake by 10 grams for two weeks enhance depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, gut health, and optimism in 18-40 year-old young adults. Participants will be provided a list of high fibre food items. Outcome measures will be acquired before and after 2-weeks . These will include cognitive measures of measures of depression, anxiety, and stress symptomatology; sleep; gastrointestinal symptomatology; optimism.

Enrollment

40 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Aging between 18-40 years old
Having normal vision and hearing
Having a body mass index between 18.5 and 30
Not following a high fibre diet >20g fibre/day as assessed by using the FiberScreen

Exclusion criteria

Smoking
Having food allergies
Following restrictive and/or unbalanced diets
Changing dietary intake majorly in past month
Being diagnosed with any psychiatric or neurologic conditions
Being diagnosed with any cardiometabolic diseases, or hypertension or thrombosis related disorders or suffer from thyroid disease
Currently taking anticoagulants, antiplatelet medication, antidepressants, proton-pump inhibitors
Currently consuming prebiotic or probiotic supplements or laxatives
Continuous antibiotic use for > 3 days within 1 month prior to enrolment
Continuous use of weight-loss drug for > 1 month before screening
Having a significant gastrointestinal (GI) condition