Nutrition Education Program in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrition Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05953597

20230569

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to assess the effectiveness of a nutrition education program in increasing nutrition knowledge and improving health-related biomarkers in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults with SCI with complete and incomplete (American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale Score A-D) paraplegia or ventilator-independent tetraplegia.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who do not meet inclusion criteria.
• Adults unable to consent.
• Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
• Pregnant women (self-report)
• Prisoners

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Nutrition Education Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this study arm will receive nutrition education once a month for 12 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition Education