Dietary Guidelines, Portion Sizes, and Time Frame

Diet Habit Clinical Trial

Official title:

How Dieticians Deliver Dietary Guidelines Using Portion Sizes and Time Frame

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03422939
• Other study ID #: GrenobleEM
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 10, 2018
• Last updated: January 30, 2018
• Start date: November 24, 2013
• Est. completion date: January 2, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: Grenoble Ecole de Management
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

During the last update of the French FBDG, a survey with a representative sample of dieticians investigated 1) how to communicate portion sizes and 2) the most relevant time frame when delivering dietary guidelines. The objective was to determine how to express portion sizes and time frame for Food Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) using the feedback of dietitians. Data were obtained from an internet-based survey of 441 French dieticians (collected from November 24, 2013 through January 2, 2014).

Description:

Background: Food Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) need to accessible and understandable to consumers. During the last update of the French FBDG, a survey with a representative sample of dieticians investigated 1) how to communicate portion sizes and 2) the most relevant time frame when delivering dietary guidelines.

Objective: To determine how to express portion sizes and time frame for Food Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) using the feedback of dietitians.

Design: Data were obtained from an internet-based survey of 441 French dieticians (collected from November 24, 2013 through January 2, 2014).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 441
• Est. completion date: January 2, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: January 2, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

All members of the AFDN (French Association of Dietitians and Nutritionists) were invited to participate (n=2500 except the ones that had already participated in the pre-test n=10).

Members of the AFDN who have completed the online questionnaire were retained for analysis (n= 441).

Exclusion Criteria:

Incomplete questionnaires Participants of the pre-test (n=10)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diet Habit
• Food Habits

Intervention

Other:
• there was no intervention, only separate analyses
We only conducted separate analyses to see if responses differed according to level of experience.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Grenoble Ecole de Management

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire to measure number of dietitians using different types of portion size and time frame	Open-ended questions to measure how dietitians and patients describe portion sizes and time frame	through study completion, an average of 1 month