Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults Program (HE) Study (HES)

Health and Healing Research Education and Service, Inc.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Diseases, Multiple

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04991844

120180167

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ (HESL) is a six-week community nutrition and lifestyle education program designed specifically for the elderly (>60 years), to promote dietary and behavioral changes towards a healthy lifestyle. The intervention was evaluated using a randomized-controlled trial.

Full description

The elderly are at a higher risk of various chronic diseases. The burden of various chronic diseases such as heart disease and osteoporosis can be reduced with change in dietary and other lifestyle behaviors. The Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ (HESL) provides elderly with needed knowledge on healthy food choices and lifestyle behaviors, and tools that support behavioral changes. The investigators aimed to evaluate this intervention program by determining, among others, the impact of the intervention on factors such as dietary intake of fiber, and other nutrients, as well as healthy behaviors and food choices, and quality of life at 6 months post-intervention, using a randomized-controlled trial. The intervention group was compared to the control group receiving no intervention to evaluate the effects of the six-week HESL intervention on our outcome measures of interest.

Enrollment: 292 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• willingness to participate and complete all study activities following randomization into the intervention or control group.
• English-speaking.
• interested and able to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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292 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group did not receive any intervention, but met at three timepoints to complete study questionnaires and provide anthropometric measurements,

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group received the study intervention protocol.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention Group