Nutrition Education to Promote Calcium Intake Among 30-65 Year-old Women in Vietnam

Texas Tech University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoporosis

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrition education intervention about osteoporosis and calcium

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04196426

IRB2019-22

Details and patient eligibility

About

Osteoporosis is an important public health problem in Vietnam, with one in ten Vietnamese women suffering from it. There is enough evidence demonstrating that low calcium intake is one of the risk factors for osteoporosis among Asian women in general and Vietnamese women in specific. It is reported that the intake of calcium among Vietnamese women is under 400 mg/day, which is less than the daily recommendation of 1,000 mg/day by the Vietnam National Institute of Nutrition, even though calcium-rich foods are largely available in Vietnam. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to promote dietary calcium intake among Vietnamese women aged 30-65 years through implementing a nutrition education intervention.

Full description

Vietnamese women aged 30-65 years without medical problems that could interfere with the calcium consumption, such as kidney stone, kidney and liver diseases. The women will be excluded if they are blinded, deaf, or have general learning disability.

Outcomes of the study are dietary calcium intake, calcium knowledge, and osteoporosis health belief. A quantitative questionnaire is being used to collect these data.

Enrollment: 250 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women aged 30 to 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• have medical conditions that can interfere with calcium intake, such as physician-diagnosed kidney stone, kidney and liver diseases, etc.
• blind, deaf, and have general learning disability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

nutrition education group

Experimental group

Description:

The nutrition education group receive the intervention first, which include 2 nutrition lessons about osteoporosis and calcium and calcium rich foods. The 2 lessons are delivered in one week for 2 hours each lesson. After this week, participants in the intervention group receive handouts about osteoporosis and calcium once a week for a period of 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition education intervention about osteoporosis and calcium

delayed nutrition education group

Active Comparator group

Description:

After the intervention group finish their intervention (5 weeks period), post data collection will be administered in both nutrition education and delayed nutrition education group. After this post data collection, the delayed nutrition education group receive the same intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition education intervention about osteoporosis and calcium