The Role of Diet Education and Nutritional Counselling in the Ongoing Care of People Living With HIV in Thailand (TACH001)

Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrition Counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00549367

TACHIN001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition education and dietary counselling to improve the nutritional status, well-being and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) attending an HIV treatment facility in Bangkok Thailand.

Full description

To evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition education and dietary counselling to improve the nutritional status, well-being and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) attending an HIV treatment facility in Bangkok Thailand. This will be achieved by determining if dietary counselling and nutrition education has an effect on nutritional status (weight, lean body mass and fat mass), dietary intake, food security, quality of life, biochemical parameters (including total cholesterol, LDL/ HDL cholesterol and Triglyceride), experience of symptoms and patient satisfaction

Enrollment: 153 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV positive
• 18 years of age or older
• Receiving ongoing care as part of the TRCARC Family Clinic (TRCARC Wellness Plus clinic)
• Either ART naive or have been on stable ART for more than 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• HIV negative
• Unintentional weight loss of more than 10% usual body weight, or BMI<17
• BMI>30
• Suspected or documented HIV related opportunistic infection
• Pregnant women
• Women less than 3 months post-partum

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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153 participants in 1 patient group

1

Other group

Description:

Clients in the control arm of the study will receive nutrition assessment only for the first 24 weeks and the be transferred to nutrition counselling group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition Counselling