Clinical trial NCT06339957: Rheumatology Diet Study
Official title: Title of Study: Eating Habits and Symptom Severity in Autoimmune Diseases: a Patient Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Diet Habit
Rheumatologic Disease
Autoimmune Diseases
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Psoriatic Arthritis
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Dermatomyositis/polymyositis
Sjogren's Syndrome
Systemic Lupus Erythematous
Scleroderma
Fibromyalgia
Lead sponsor: University of Central Florida
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-01
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The participants are expected to come from the established rheumatology patient census at the UCF Health Clinics. The research team will identify potential participants via pre-screening the electronic medical records for the inclusion criteria.

Brief summary: This study aims to collect information on rheumatology patients' dietary habits, autoimmune disease activity, dietary changes, disease symptom improvements, and perceptions on their dietary habits and how it affects their autoimmune disease. The main objective is to see if rheumatology patients change their dietary habits after their diagnosis of an autoimmune disease and if it subjectively improved their disease symptoms. It will also look at rheumatology patients' expectations for their rheumatologist when it comes to dietary advice and what resources they used to choose their new dietary habits. The study also seeks to measure the interest that rheumatology patients have in pursuing dietary changes as a means of controlling the symptoms of their autoimmune disease. It is expected that patients who changed their eating habits to healthier diets such as a Mediterranean diet would report less severe autoimmune disease symptoms. There are limited dietary recommendations for the management of many rheumatological diseases, so this study seeks to assess rheumatology patients' willingness to try dietary modifications, what improvements they had, and why they decide to make these changes in light of limited information.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adults (over 18 years old) patients
* established UCF Health patients
* diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, dermatomyositis/polymyositis, Sjogren's Syndrome, systemic lupus erythematous, scleroderma, osteoarthritis, or fibromyalgia.

Exclusion Criteria:

* UCF Students, Faculty or Staff
* Children or Young Adults Under the age of 18
* Adults over 65
* Pregnant Women
* Prisoners
* Adults to Unable to Consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: To determine how diet habits and activity affects autoimmune diseases using the proper statistical tests for the data set such as t-test and ANOVA.
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: To identify if rheumatology patients change their dietary habits after their diagnosis of an autoimmune disease and if it subjectively improved their disease symptoms.
timeFrame: 4 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Orlando
country: United States
facility: UCF Health Clinics
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Central Florida
name: Neha Bhanusali, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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