Dietary Intake and Eating Habits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 Clinical Trial

— COVIDiet  

Official title:

Dietary Intake and Eating Habits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04407533
• Other study ID #: 20-04-064
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: May 25, 2020
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: McGill University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic affects eating habits, diet quality and physical activity differently among individuals; it is unclear how these behaviours will evolve as the pandemic continues. In this observational study, dietary intake will be frequently collected using an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced mobile application combined with real-time analysis, and lifestyle behaviours from online questionnaires, to provide timely, relevant data for public health decision making.

Description:

A thousand nine hundred and twenty adult men and women aged 18 years and older, living in the community and owning a smartphone or tablet, will be recruited all over Canada. Rapid recruitment will be achieved using social media and professional networks. All data will be collected online to allow a broad reach even in remote regions. Self-reported eating habits, physical activity, sleep, alcohol consumption, anxiety and depression data will be collected using validated questionnaires on an online survey platform, and dietary intake data using the mobile application Keenoa. With the application, participants take pictures of their meals, which are analyzed and accessible to researchers in real-time, providing comprehensive data on nutrient and food intake, and hence patterns and diet quality. Diet will be tracked for a full week at study entrance and repeated 6 times during a year, and once one year later, along with follow-up questionnaires on lifestyle behaviours.

The main study objectives are 1) to evaluate how eating habits, diet quality and related lifestyle behaviours of Canadian adults are impacted by confinement phases of the pandemic over one year; and 2) determine the association between eating behaviours and diet quality with contextual socio-demographic, education, emotional and health factors, and identify emerging explanatory factors as clusters.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 2020
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women aged 18 years and over, living in Canada

• Owning a smartphone and having access to internet

• Able to read and understand English or French

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any active and uncontrolled acute disease that interferes with usual food intake

• Being hospitalized

• Pregnancy or lactation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19

Intervention

Other:
• Diet tracking and survey
Mobile AI-based food diary application and online questionnaires

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	McGill University - School of Human Nutrition	Montréal	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
McGill University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dietary intake	Energy, macronutrients, micronutrients, and food intake assessed with the Keenoa mobile application	Two years
Secondary	Diet quality	Calculated from food group intake as per the Canadian Healthy Eating Index	Two years
Secondary	Eating habits	Eating behaviors, food access and cooking skills collected from online questionnaire	Two years