Compliance to the Norwegian Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Young Females

NCT ID: NCT02416284

Last Updated: 2015-04-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 14 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2012-11-30

Brief Summary

The Norwegian Directorate of Health recently published the Norwegian food-based dietary guidelines (NFBDG) in 2011. The target for the NFBDG is the general population, and the main aims of these guidelines are to promote public health and prevent chronic degenerative diseases. Reaching the healthy population is crucial as only small proportion of the general population comply to the current public dietary advice in Norway. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate whether a multi-faceted dietary intervention could increase compliance to the NFBDG and affect biomarkers of chronic degenerative diseases in a healthy population.

Detailed Description

The study was conducted as part of a master level course in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Oslo. Thus, the main objective of the study was to teach the master students about planning, conducting and analysing data from a clinical trial. The students themselves are subjects of the study, however the participation in the study was voluntary and did in no way affect the approval of the course.

Since the primary objective of the study was teaching, the study was confirmed by the "Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics" (REC) to be exempt from REC approval.

Conditions

Dietary Modification

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

NFBDG

Multi-faceted, 2 week intervention to increase compliance to the NFBDG.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

NFBDG

Intervention Type: OTHER

Intervention consists of:

Lecture presenting the NFBDG, Printed booklet containing the NFBDG, Suggested meal plan for a week, Recipes, Access to a restricted website with further information on the NFBDG, A Facebook-group where "Vegetable of the day" was presented with a suggested recipe, text-messages with encouragement to follow the guidelines, follow-up phone-calls, common exercise sessions, Free common meals (1 breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 dinner), Free foods (low-fat dairy products, a juice containing grapes, blueberries, chokeberries, and cherries and fruits)

Interventions

NFBDG

Intervention consists of:

Lecture presenting the NFBDG, Printed booklet containing the NFBDG, Suggested meal plan for a week, Recipes, Access to a restricted website with further information on the NFBDG, A Facebook-group where "Vegetable of the day" was presented with a suggested recipe, text-messages with encouragement to follow the guidelines, follow-up phone-calls, common exercise sessions, Free common meals (1 breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 dinner), Free foods (low-fat dairy products, a juice containing grapes, blueberries, chokeberries, and cherries and fruits)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• female

Exclusion Criteria

• serious chronic disease requiring medication
• pregnancy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Rune Blomhoff

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Oslo

Oslo, , Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

ERN4120_2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id