Functional Medicine Health Coaching

The Institute for Functional Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Promotion

Treatments: Behavioral: Functional Medicine Health Coaching for Elimination Diet for Elimination Diet; Behavioral: Self-guided Elimination Diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05551546

EliminationDietRCT1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this research is to evaluate the feasibility and self-reported health outcomes of functional medicine health coaching in elimination diets among clinicians receiving training in functional medicine.

A randomized controlled clinical trial of a 5-session functional medicine coaching and elimination diet intervention will be conducted to achieve the purpose of this study. The research team hypothesizes that functional medicine health coaching to support the elimination diet will improve physical and mental health outcomes better than the control condition of a self-guided elimination diet.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Agree to adopt the elimination diet as outlined by study sponsor with no pre-planned interruption
• Able to understand and write English
• Voluntarily consent to the study and understand its nature and purpose including potential risks and side effects

Exclusion criteria

• Eating disorders within the past 10 years
• Currently pregnant or breastfeeding
• Nursing home residents, other institutionalized persons, prisoners, any other vulnerable participants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Functional Medicine Health Coaching for Elimination Diet

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized into the "Functional Medicine Health Coaching for Elimination Diet" arm will receive five remote health coaching sessions over 10 weeks in support of their progress through an elimination diet. All study arms will receive written elimination diet support materials.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Functional Medicine Health Coaching for Elimination Diet for Elimination Diet

Self-guided Elimination Diet

Other group

Description:

Participants randomized into the "Self-guided Elimination Diet" group will engage with the elimination diet without health coaching. All study arms will receive written elimination diet support materials.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-guided Elimination Diet