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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
1607 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2012-08-31
2014-12-31
Brief Summary
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The hypotheses to be tested in the Food4Me study are as follows:
* Personalisation of dietary advice assists and/or motivates consumers to eat a healthier diet and follow a healthier lifestyle (in comparison with "impersonal" \[conventional\] dietary advice).
* Personalisation based on individualised biochemical (phenotypic) and/or genetic information is more effective in assisting and/or motivating study participants to make, and to sustain, appropriate healthy changes to their usual (habitual) diet and lifestyle.
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Detailed Description
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Recruitment Centres
Recruitment to the Food4Me intervention study will be carried out using identical protocols in 7 centres across the EU involving a total of 1,288 study participants i.e. 184 participants per country. The Proof-of-Proof of Principle study centres involve in the recruitment are:
* University College Dublin, Ireland.
* University of Maastricht, Netherlands.
* Universidad de Navarra, Spain.
* Harokopio University, Greece.
* The University of Reading, Uk
* National Food and Nutrition Institute, Poland.
* Technische Universitaet Muenchen, German.
Study design
Then, each proof-of-principle centre will recruit a sample of 184 participants and with 46 subjects will be randomly assigned each of the following levels of personalised nutrition:
* Level 0: Control group - will receive non-personalized dietary advice for improved food choice based on standard population healthy eating guidelines.
* Level 1: Personalised dietary advice based on dietary intake data alone.
* Level 2: Personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake and phenotypic data into account.
* Level 3: Personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake, phenotypic and genotypic data into account.
The study has been designed to mimic a fully Internet delivered personalized nutrition service. The route to recruitment will be via the Internet to mimic the real life conditions for a "proof-of-principle" study. However, to ensure adequate recruitment to this scientific study, the recruitment of study participants will be also based on local and national advertising of the service through internet, radio advertisements, other advertisements, use of social media or face to face meetings.
Only participants aged 18 years of age and above will be included in the study. A minimal set of exclusion criteria will be applied (subject under 18 years old, pregnant or lactating, no or limited access to internet, following a prescribed diet for any reason, including weight loss in the last 3 months, Insulin dependent diabetes, celiac disease, Crohn's, or any metabolic disease or condition that alters nutritional requirements, such as diabetes. Other than balancing the male to female ratio among recruits (with not more than a 70/30 or 30/70 distribution of males and females in each group) and balancing the age ratio (with not more than a 70/30 or 30/70 distribution of participants \<45 years and \> 45 years old in each group) no other stratification will be applied since the objective is to complete the proof-of-principle study in as real setting as possible. All age and sex stratification will be applied before randomisation of the participants to each level / group of personalised nutrition (0, 1, 2 and 3).
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SINGLE_GROUP
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Level 0
Level 0: Control group - participants will receive non-personalized dietary advice for improved food choice based on standard population healthy eating guidelines.
Level 0
Level 0 - Control group - Investigators will provide non-personalized dietary advice for improved food choice based on standard population healthy eating guidelines.
Level 1
Level or Group 1: participants will receive personalised dietary advice based on their dietary intake data alone.
Level 1
Level 1 - Participants will receive personalised dietary advice based on their dietary intake data alone.
Level 2
Level or Group 2: participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking their dietary intake and phenotypic data ( obesity-related phenotypes and clinical biomarkers) into account.
Level 2
Level or Group 2: Participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake and phenotypic data into account.
Level 3
Level or Group 3 : participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking their dietary intake, phenotypic (obesity-related markers) and genotypic data into account.
Level 3
Level or group 3: Participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake, phenotypic and genotypic data into account.
Interventions
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Level 1
Level 1 - Participants will receive personalised dietary advice based on their dietary intake data alone.
Level 2
Level or Group 2: Participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake and phenotypic data into account.
Level 3
Level or group 3: Participants will receive personalised dietary advice taking dietary intake, phenotypic and genotypic data into account.
Level 0
Level 0 - Control group - Investigators will provide non-personalized dietary advice for improved food choice based on standard population healthy eating guidelines.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
* Pregnant or lactating.
* No or limited access to internet.
* Following a prescribed diet for any reason, including weight loss in the last 3 months.
* Subjects under medication for Insulin dependent diabetes, celiac disease, Crohn's or any metabolic disease or condition that alters nutritional requirements, such as diabetes.
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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University College Dublin
OTHER
Maastricht University
OTHER
University of Oslo
OTHER
University of Navarra
OTHER
Harokopio University
OTHER
University of Reading
OTHER
National Food and Nutrition InstitutE
UNKNOWN
Technical University of Munich
OTHER
University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne
OTHER
Newcastle University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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John Mathers, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Mike Gibney, Professor
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
University College Dublin, Ireland
Wim Saris, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
•Universiteit Maastricht, Netehrlands
Alfredo Martinez, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Navarra, Spain
Julie Lovegrove, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Yannis Manios, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Iwona Traczyk, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
National Food and Nutrition Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Hannelore Daniel, Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Locations
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Technische Universitaet Muenchen
München, , Germany
The Harokopio University
Athens, , Greece
University College Dublin
Dublin, , Ireland
Maastricht University
Maastricht, , Netherlands
National Food and Nutritional Institute
Warsaw, , Poland
University of Navarra
Navarra, , Spain
Newcastle University
Newcastle, , United Kingdom
University of Reading
Reading, , United Kingdom
Countries
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References
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Livingstone KM, Brayner B, Celis-Morales C, Moschonis G, Manios Y, Traczyk I, Drevon CA, Daniel H, Saris WHM, Lovegrove JA, Gibney M, Gibney ER, Brennan L, Martinez JA, Mathers JC. Associations between dietary patterns, FTO genotype and obesity in adults from seven European countries. Eur J Nutr. 2022 Sep;61(6):2953-2965. doi: 10.1007/s00394-022-02858-3. Epub 2022 Mar 21.
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Livingstone KM, Celis-Morales C, Macready AL, Fallaize R, Forster H, Woolhead C, O'Donovan CB, Marsaux CF, Navas-Carretero S, San-Cristobal R, Kolossa S, Tsirigoti L, Lambrinou CP, Moschonis G, Surwillo A, Drevon CA, Manios Y, Traczyk I, Gibney ER, Brennan L, Walsh MC, Lovegrove JA, Martinez JA, Saris WH, Daniel H, Gibney M, Mathers JC. Characteristics of European adults who dropped out from the Food4Me Internet-based personalised nutrition intervention. Public Health Nutr. 2017 Jan;20(1):53-63. doi: 10.1017/S1368980016002020. Epub 2016 Aug 5.
Forster H, Walsh MC, O'Donovan CB, Woolhead C, McGirr C, Daly EJ, O'Riordan R, Celis-Morales C, Fallaize R, Macready AL, Marsaux CF, Navas-Carretero S, San-Cristobal R, Kolossa S, Hartwig K, Mavrogianni C, Tsirigoti L, Lambrinou CP, Godlewska M, Surwillo A, Gjelstad IM, Drevon CA, Manios Y, Traczyk I, Martinez JA, Saris WH, Daniel H, Lovegrove JA, Mathers JC, Gibney MJ, Gibney ER, Brennan L. A Dietary Feedback System for the Delivery of Consistent Personalized Dietary Advice in the Web-Based Multicenter Food4Me Study. J Med Internet Res. 2016 Jun 30;18(6):e150. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5620.
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Other Identifiers
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Food4Me-549426
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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