Online vs. Face-to-face Nutritional Advice in Kuwait (EatWellQ8)

University of Reading

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Habits; Dietary Modification

Treatments: Behavioral: Non-personalised advice; Behavioral: Online personalised advice; Behavioral: Face-to-face personalised advice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03396263

13/17b

Details and patient eligibility

About

The EatWellQ8 study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a mobile web application (e-Nutri), capable of delivering automated personalised nutrition advice, compared with face-to-face nutritional advice, in increasing diet quality.

Dietary assessment is via the validated Food4Me FFQ (with an updated user interface that has been designed for better usability) and dietary feedback is derived according to adherence to an 11-item modified US Alternative Healthy Eating Index (m-AHEI).

Enrollment: 320 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged > 21 years

Exclusion criteria

• aged < 21 years old
• not living in the UK
• pregnant/lactating
• no or limited access to internet
• following a prescribed diet for any reason
• intolerance or food allergy
• subject with diabetes, or any other metabolic disorder or illness that alters nutritional requirements

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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320 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Online personalised advice

Experimental group

Description:

Online (web-based) delivery of personalised dietary, weight and physical activity advice based on the individual's dietary intake, weight and physical activity levels, generated by the e-Nutri web application. Participants in this group will receive online personalised reports.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online personalised advice

Face-to-face personalised advice

Experimental group

Description:

Face-to-face delivery of personalised dietary, weight and physical activity advice based on the individual's dietary intake, weight and physical activity levels, generated by the e-Nutri web application. Participants in this group will receive nutritional advice face-to-face (in person or via video chat).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Face-to-face personalised advice

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Non-personalised advice Control group. Online (web-based) delivery of non- personalised dietary, weight and physical activity advice based on the UK general health guidelines. This arm will be using the e-Nutri web application. Participants in this group will receive online general recommendations (non- personalised).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Non-personalised advice