Effect of Healthy Lunch and Snack Meal on Reaction Time and Well-being of Physicians and Nursing Staff (Go-No-Go)

NCT ID: NCT01739569

Last Updated: 2022-12-21

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-08-31

Study Completion Date

2012-12-31

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of increased availability of healthy food and drink during working hours on reaction time and well-being in physicians and nursing staff.

Hospital medical staff often works long and hectic hours, without adequate meal or rest breaks in order to provide 24-hour care. This is a concern, as not only the staff's well-being is important to the individual welfare, but it is also vital to the quality and safety of the care their patients receive. The investigators believe that by focusing on physicians and nursing staffs nutrition the investigators will see a positive effect on staff performance and well-being - and thus ultimately possibly on patient safety.

Hypothesis: The provision of healthy lunch and snack meal during working hours for a period of 4 weeks will improve reaction time and well-being compared to habitual diet in physicians, nurses and nursing assistants.

Detailed Description

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The study is designed as a randomised controlled 2 x 4 weeks cross-over trial, initiated with a 1-week run-in period. The study sample will consist of 60 volunteer physicians, nurses and nursing assistants from Herlev University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. A healthy lunch and snack meal meeting the current danish diet recommendations will be delivered daily during all working days in the intervention period. During the control period, the participants are requested to maintain their habitual dietary intake at work. Reaction time will be assessed by reaction time test Go/No-Go, a subtest of Test-battery for Attention Performance. Changes in mood will be measured by the Profile of Mood State questionnaire. In addition, dietary intake, level of physical activity and palatability of the intervention diet will be registered.

Conditions

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Nutrition Intervention

Keywords

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Diet treatment Mental Health Reaction time State of moods Working hours Medical Hospital Staff

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Dietary treatment

Dietary treatment with healthy lunch and snack meal during working hours

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Dietary treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Dietary treatment with healthy lunch and snack meal during working hours

Habitual meals

Dietary treatment with habitual diet

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Dietary treatment

Dietary treatment with healthy lunch and snack meal during working hours

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Employed in Herlev University Hospital as physician, nurse or nursing assistant (males and females)
* Age 20-70 years
* BMI 18,5-30 kg/m2
* Work at least 30 h/wk
* Have daily contact with patients and/or have responsibilities that may affect patient safety
* Primarily work in day- or evening shifts during the study period
* Not having any intentions of loosing weight or changing lifestyle habits during the study period
* Not suffer from any diseases that might affect dietary intake (e.g. food allergies, food intolerance)
* Not dine in the staff canteen, the Diastole, more than once a week
* Be able to write and understand the Danish language

Exclusion Criteria

* For those working \>35 h/wk having holiday/ time off duty for more than 9 consecutive days during the study period.
* For those working \<35 h/wk having holiday/time off duty for more than 5 consecutive days during the study period
* Not to be able to attend the planned tests in the study
* Pregnancy
* Intensive physical exercise (e.g. strength training) \> 5 hours/wk
* Suffer from food allergies or - intolerance
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Christian Bitz

Head of Research

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Christian Bitz, Cand Scient

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev

Locations

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EFFECT, Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev

Herlev, Copenhagen, Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

References

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Leedo E, Beck AM, Astrup A, Lassen AD. The effectiveness of healthy meals at work on reaction time, mood and dietary intake: a randomised cross-over study in daytime and shift workers at an university hospital. Br J Nutr. 2017 Jul;118(2):121-129. doi: 10.1017/S000711451700191X.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 28820084 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EFFECT.A01.2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id