Sustainable Eating Behaviors and Diet Quality

NCT ID: NCT06100666

Last Updated: 2025-03-12

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-11-01

Study Completion Date

2024-11-15

Brief Summary

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The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the sustainable nutrition behaviors (e.g. not wasting food, consuming organic food) and diet quality of university staff. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What is the diet quality of the participants?
* Do participants with higher diet quality have better sustainable eating behaviors?

Detailed Description

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Sustainable diets are diets with low environmental impacts that contribute to food and nutritional security and healthy living for present and future generations. They are recognized as protective of ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy diets. Sustainable healthy diets ensure optimal growth and development of all individuals, support functionality across all life stages for current and future generations, contribute to the prevention of all forms of malnutrition, reduce the risk of diet-related non-communicable diseases and support the protection of biodiversity and planetary health. Recently, the need to promote nutritious and safe sustainable diets with low environmental impact has been emphasized. Diets based mostly on plant-based foods, such as the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet, are recognized as sustainable eating models. The aim of this study is to evaluate the sustainable eating behaviors and diet quality based on food consumption of academic and administrative staff working at the university and to determine the relationship between them.

1. How is the diet quality of the university staff?
2. How are the sustainable nutrition behaviors of the university staff?
3. Is there a difference between diet quality groups in terms of sustainable nutrition behaviors?

Conditions

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Nutrition, Healthy

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Adults

Academic and administrative staff working at Tarsus University

Observational Tests

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors Scale will be used to assess sustainable eating behaviors, one-day food consumption records will be collected with the 24-hour Dietary Recall method, the International Diet Quality Index and EAT-Lancet Diet Score will be used to assess diet quality, and body weight, height, waist circumference and neck circumference will be measured to determine nutritional status.

Interventions

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Observational Tests

The Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors Scale will be used to assess sustainable eating behaviors, one-day food consumption records will be collected with the 24-hour Dietary Recall method, the International Diet Quality Index and EAT-Lancet Diet Score will be used to assess diet quality, and body weight, height, waist circumference and neck circumference will be measured to determine nutritional status.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Being a staff member of Tarsus University
* Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnancy
* The presence of any known condition that prevents the taking of anthropometric measurements
* Presence of a known memory problem that may prevent receiving 24-hour Recall
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Tarsus University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ankara University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Gamze Altıntaş

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Gamze Altintas

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ankara University

Locations

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Tarsus University

Mersin, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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Willett W, Rockstrom J, Loken B, Springmann M, Lang T, Vermeulen S, Garnett T, Tilman D, DeClerck F, Wood A, Jonell M, Clark M, Gordon LJ, Fanzo J, Hawkes C, Zurayk R, Rivera JA, De Vries W, Majele Sibanda L, Afshin A, Chaudhary A, Herrero M, Agustina R, Branca F, Lartey A, Fan S, Crona B, Fox E, Bignet V, Troell M, Lindahl T, Singh S, Cornell SE, Srinath Reddy K, Narain S, Nishtar S, Murray CJL. Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Lancet. 2019 Feb 2;393(10170):447-492. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4. Epub 2019 Jan 16. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30660336 (View on PubMed)

Hanley-Cook GT, Argaw AA, de Kok BP, Vanslambrouck KW, Toe LC, Kolsteren PW, Jones AD, Lachat CK. EAT-Lancet diet score requires minimum intake values to predict higher micronutrient adequacy of diets in rural women of reproductive age from five low- and middle-income countries. Br J Nutr. 2021 Jul 14;126(1):92-100. doi: 10.1017/S0007114520003864. Epub 2020 Sep 30.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32993824 (View on PubMed)

Kim S, Haines PS, Siega-Riz AM, Popkin BM. The Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I) provides an effective tool for cross-national comparison of diet quality as illustrated by China and the United States. J Nutr. 2003 Nov;133(11):3476-84. doi: 10.1093/jn/133.11.3476.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 14608061 (View on PubMed)

Knuppel A, Papier K, Key TJ, Travis RC. EAT-Lancet score and major health outcomes: the EPIC-Oxford study. Lancet. 2019 Jul 20;394(10194):213-214. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31236-X. Epub 2019 Jun 21. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31235280 (View on PubMed)

Koksal E, Bilici S, Citar Daziroglu ME, Erdogan Govez N. Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors Scale. Br J Nutr. 2022 Aug 8:1-20. doi: 10.1017/S0007114522002525. Online ahead of print.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 35938236 (View on PubMed)

Zakowska-Biemans S, Pieniak Z, Kostyra E, Gutkowska K. Searching for a Measure Integrating Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors. Nutrients. 2019 Jan 5;11(1):95. doi: 10.3390/nu11010095.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30621258 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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AU-BES-GAltintas-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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