A Sustainable Diet for Hadassah Employees Workers

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Sustainable Diet for Hadassah Employees

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01686399
• Other study ID #: HMO 0645-11
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 9, 2012
• Last updated: March 22, 2015
• Start date: June 2015
• Est. completion date: March 2016

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Contact: Dorit Adler, MPH
• Phone: 02677551
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this protocol is to use a multidisciplinary approach to convey nutrition and activity messages to randomly selected Hadassah Medical Center employees. The intervention will be for one academic year and include frontal talks, email and internet focus group interactions, public demonstrations and a focused intervention within the hospital kitchen.

The outcomes are specific parameters of dietary modifications, degree of physical activity and health related perspectives. Outcomes will be recorded at baseline and by the end of the intervention ( one year).

Description:

The participants will be selected randomly from the campus employees. They will be exposed to multiple levels of health promotion at the work place as well as via multiple media tools. Analysis will be performed at baseline by using multiple nutrition and health perception questionnaires. A second group from the employees will be selected for assessment of the same outcomes at the end of the year.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 450
• Est. completion date: March 2016
• Est. primary completion date: March 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 21 Years to 67 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Hadassah medical center employees Age 21-67

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Nutritional and Activity Promotion
Multi disciplinary nutritional and behavioral messages to improve diet and activity levels

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Hadassah Medical Center	Jerusalem Region

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hadassah Medical Organization

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Amount of soft drinks consumed per day	The amount of soft drinks consumed per day will be assessed via questionnaires	one year	No
Primary	Change in amount of fruit/vegetable consumption per day	Amount of fruit/vegetable consumption will be evaluated via questionnaires	one year	No
Secondary	Amount of physical activity per week	Amount of physical activity will be assessed via questionnaires	one year	No