Healthy Meals: A Restaurant-based Study to Promote Healthy and Allergy Adapted Diet (HealthyMeals)

University Rovira i Virgili

Status

Completed

Conditions

Food Allergy

Food Intolerance

Intervention

Diet Habit

Diet Modification

Food Preferences

Treatments

Behavioral: Multicomponent intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03826576

Healthy Meals

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).

Full description

The aim is to test the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).

The study is a 12-month restaurant-based intervention study, randomized, controlled and parallel.

Enrollment

164 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

The inclusion and exclusion criteria were about restaurants, as a unit of randomization. This study is randomized.

Inclusion Criteria:

to have signed informed consent by the restaurant owner,
to have minimum 5 tables of service,
to offer local or Mediterranean food and recipes on the menu,
to have the recipes with ingredient and cooking steps details, and
to share the food products information used in the restaurant with the research team.

Exclusion Criteria:

To be an ethnic restaurant, fast-food restaurant or a restaurant with a single product like only pizza, sushi, etc
Lack of one of the inclusion criteria