Sustainable Eating for a Healthy Tomorrow - Effectiveness of Digital Nutrition Workshops to Implement the Planetary Health Diet for Hospital Employees (EatGood)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers; Personnel, Hospital

Treatments: Behavioral: Digital events (digital cafés); Behavioral: digital/hybrid teaching kitchen; Behavioral: Digital collection of recipes; Behavioral: E-Mail-Newsletter; Behavioral: Social-Media

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06666296

24-11823-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will explore the effect of digital media on communicating a planetary diet and invite participants to change dietary habits. Standardized questionnaires, physical examinations, and qualitative interviews will be used to obtain data on the effectiveness of the intervention. Once initial assessments are complete, a blinded researcher will randomly assign participants to one of two groups, without influence from either participants or study coordinators.

Both groups will participate in a nutrition course over a 13-week period, followed by a booster session five months after randomization, and will be encouraged to practice the methods at home. One group will receive intensive support, including a digital training program (around 2 hours per week), while the other group will receive digital information and sustainable recipes with limited support (about 30 minutes per week).

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age from 18 years
• Employee at the University Hospital Essen
• A functioning smartphone
• Moderate willingness (at least 5 points on NRS) to want to change diet
• Access to digital media and social media

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient knowledge of the German language
• Simultaneous participation in other clinical intervention studies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The following digital measures are used to provide employees in the intervention group with comprehensive information at various levels and to create a sense of belonging: A digital recipe collection, an email newsletter, digital/hybrid teaching kitchen events and digital cafés with expert input and discussion groups. In addition, participants are provided with interesting information via the hospital's Instagram account and are constantly reminded of the campaign. When selecting the digital media, emphasis was placed on integrating different learning methods. Through self-learning content, such as the email newsletter, participants can absorb the information at their own pace, make a connection and evaluate it. The topics are then explored and discussed in greater depth in digital events. Individual priorities can be set in group discussions. Through regular input, participants experience a growth phase.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social-Media

Behavioral: E-Mail-Newsletter

Behavioral: Digital collection of recipes

Behavioral: Digital events (digital cafés)

Behavioral: digital/hybrid teaching kitchen

Control group

Other group

Description:

The control group will have access to the digital prescription collection, which is being developed on the basis of the Planetary Health Diet. In addition, the control group can use information on the clinic's Instagram account. In addition to access to the above-mentioned recipes and information via the Instagram channel, the intervention group receives additional digital support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social-Media

Behavioral: Digital collection of recipes