Virtual Teaching Kitchen

Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Virtual Nutritional Education Delivered Through a Hospital Teaching Kitchen : a Proof-of-concept Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04509206
• Other study ID #: H-39597
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 28, 2020
• Est. completion date: August 13, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: October 2021
• Source: Boston University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A novel way of delivering nutritional education is through experiential learning in a teaching kitchen setting. Studies have shown that patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent a series of classes that featured nutrition recommendations and cooking classes had improved cardiac health.

Boston Medical Center (BMC) serves many underserved, low-income patients and has developed an innovative strategy to combat food insecurity and its consequences. This includes a preventative food pantry, a teaching kitchen, and a rooftop farm that provides fresh produce directly to the patients. The presence of this well-established three-pronged approach places our institution in an ideal position to develop a nutritional education intervention that supports experiential learning in this high-risk population.

Given the increasing focus on providing remote experiences to minimize contact and risk of infection with Sars-COV-2, the investigators are proposing a study where patients can benefit from nutritional education virtually. Patients with food insecurity and metabolic syndrome who utilize the food pantry will be invited to an educational program conducted on zoom. The program will be run by a registered dietician and chef who will deliver education virtually. Data will be collected using surveys, phone interviews, chart review, and home monitoring to test both the feasibility of running such an intervention virtually and to explore whether attending this program improves cardiac health in patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 16
• Est. completion date: August 13, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 28, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 30 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Users of the food pantry

• English speaking

• Must have one of following on their EPIC problem list (Diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia or obstructive sleep apnea)

• Must have documented measured blood pressure, weight, height in the 12 months prior to the intervention.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with advanced dementia or uncontrolled psychiatric disease

• Non-english speakers since education delivered in the pilot in English

• Uncontrolled medical illness including hypertension, recent acute coronary syndrome, active malignancy or other condition that would make the subject unable to complete the study procedures

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiac Health
• Metabolic Syndrome

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Nutritional education
The curriculum for the four classes include understanding MyPlate guidelines, learn basic knife skills, meal prep, and plan, home farming and no-cook cooking.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Boston Medical Center	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Boston University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	recruitment rates	based on number of people invited to participate, number recruited and consented and number attended	12 months
Primary	retention rates	based on attendance at each virtual educational session	12 months
Primary	facilitators for nutritional education	information will be obtained through qualitative interviews	12 months
Primary	barriers to nutritional education	information will be obtained through qualitative interviews	12 months
Secondary	knowledge of healthy foods	through qualitative interview	12 months
Secondary	change in blood pressure (BP)	Baseline BP will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will be provided with a home BP cuff. BP measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the BP app. The 6 month follow BP will be extracted from the medical chart if available.	baseline, up to 6 months
Secondary	change in blood glucose	Baseline blood glucose will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will use their own glucometer to measure their blood glucose. glucose measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the glucometer. The 6 month follow blood glucose will be extracted from the medical chart if available.	baseline, up to 6 months
Secondary	change in hemoglobin A1c	Baseline will be extracted from the chart and 6 month will be extracted from the chart if available	baseline, 6 months
Secondary	change in weight	Baseline weight will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will be provided with a home scale. weight measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the scale app. The 6 month follow weight will be extracted from the medical chart if available.	baseline, up to 6 months