Clinical trial NCT06100666: Sustainable Eating Behaviors and Diet Quality
Official title: Investigation of Sustainable Eating Behaviors and Diet Quality in Adults
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Nutrition, Healthy
Keywords: Anthropometry
Diet, Food, and Nutrition
Diet Records
Eating
Health Behavior
Nutrition Assessment
Sustainable Development
Lead sponsor: Ankara University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Tarsus University
First posted: 2023-10-25
Enrollment: 120
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Tarsus University academic and administrative staff

Brief summary: The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the sustainable nutrition behaviors (e.g. not wasting food, consuming organic food) and diet quality of university staff. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What is the diet quality of the participants?
* Do participants with higher diet quality have better sustainable eating behaviors?

Detailed description: Sustainable diets are diets with low environmental impacts that contribute to food and nutritional security and healthy living for present and future generations. They are recognized as protective of ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy diets. Sustainable healthy diets ensure optimal growth and development of all individuals, support functionality across all life stages for current and future generations, contribute to the prevention of all forms of malnutrition, reduce the risk of diet-related non-communicable diseases and support the protection of biodiversity and planetary health. Recently, the need to promote nutritious and safe sustainable diets with low environmental impact has been emphasized. Diets based mostly on plant-based foods, such as the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet, are recognized as sustainable eating models. The aim of this study is to evaluate the sustainable eating behaviors and diet quality based on food consumption of academic and administrative staff working at the university and to determine the relationship between them.

1. How is the diet quality of the university staff?
2. How are the sustainable nutrition behaviors of the university staff?
3. Is there a difference between diet quality groups in terms of sustainable nutrition behaviors?

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a staff member of Tarsus University
* Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnancy
* The presence of any known condition that prevents the taking of anthropometric measurements
* Presence of a known memory problem that may prevent receiving 24-hour Recall

Primary outcomes:
measure: 24-hour Dietary Recall
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors Scale
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: International Diet Quality Index
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Body weight in kilograms
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Height in meters
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Waist circumference in centimeters
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Neck circumference in centimeters
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: EAT-Lancet Diet Score
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mersin
country: Turkey
facility: Tarsus University
Study officials:
affiliation: Ankara University
name: Gamze Altintas
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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