Usability of myfood24 in Clinical Populations

University of Leeds

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Weight Loss; Gastroenterology Surgery; Colorectal Surgery; Weight Change, Body

Treatments: Other: usual care; Other: myfood24

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04758559

IRAS 266347

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many patients would benefit from dietary/nutritional support to better manage their conditions but evaluating current intake in relation to personal targets is labour-intensive and often does not feature as part of clinical consultations.

Primary objective: test usability and acceptability of 'myfood24 Health' for monitoring dietary intake in a group of patients.

Recruit 60 gastroenterology surgery patient (Leeds) and 60 Tier 3 Weight Management patients (30 Leeds/ 30 York).

Randomise to 3 groups

1. usual care
2. myfood24Health
3. myfood24Health plus personalised feedback 'diet optimisation engine' which suggests changes to amounts or types of foods

During a 2-month follow-up, patients in group 2 or 3 will be asked to record daily diet in myfood24, including weekend and weekdays and use it a minimum of 4 times.

HCPs will be able to review diet/nutrients for group 2 and 3 patients and can support dietary change or nutritional goals, as part of patients' ongoing clinical management, during existing scheduled clinic visits (N.B. not all participants will have a scheduled clinic appointment during the study).

2 months after recruitment, all participants will receive a link to an online feedback questionnaire.

At end of study, HPCs will be invited to provide feedback during a 30 minute interview.

Full description

See published results at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/9/1768

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to use a smartphone or tablet
• Have regular access to the internet
• Aged 18 years or over
• Not receiving palliative treatment for their condition
• No pre-existing condition, eg. diabetes which requires a specific diet or eating disorder
• No food allergies
• Be receiving ongoing gastrointestinal surgery or weight management treatment
• Be able to read and understand English

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Usual care

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Patients receive usual care concerning dietary advice.

Treatment:

Other: usual care

myfood24

Experimental group

Description:

Patients receive myfood24 a new online app to support tracking of food and nutrient intakes, and allows patients and healthcare professionals to communicate, seeing results of intakes to promote healthy dietary behaviour changes.

Treatment:

Other: myfood24

myfood24 + diet optimisation

Experimental group

Description:

Personalised feedback. Patients use myfood24 with an additional feature of new technology providing guidance of how to optimise their diets against targets, using information they provide about current intakes.

Treatment:

Other: myfood24