Clinical trial NCT04991844: Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults Program (HE) Study
Official title: Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ Community Education Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Diseases, Multiple
Lead sponsor: Health and Healing Research Education and Service, Inc.
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Georgetown University
First posted: 2021-08-05
Enrollment: 292
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ (HESL) is a six-week community nutrition and lifestyle education program designed specifically for the elderly (\>60 years), to promote dietary and behavioral changes towards a healthy lifestyle. The intervention was evaluated using a randomized-controlled trial.

Detailed description: The elderly are at a higher risk of various chronic diseases. The burden of various chronic diseases such as heart disease and osteoporosis can be reduced with change in dietary and other lifestyle behaviors. The Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ (HESL) provides elderly with needed knowledge on healthy food choices and lifestyle behaviors, and tools that support behavioral changes. The investigators aimed to evaluate this intervention program by determining, among others, the impact of the intervention on factors such as dietary intake of fiber, and other nutrients, as well as healthy behaviors and food choices, and quality of life at 6 months post-intervention, using a randomized-controlled trial. The intervention group was compared to the control group receiving no intervention to evaluate the effects of the six-week HESL intervention on our outcome measures of interest.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* willingness to participate and complete all study activities following randomization into the intervention or control group.
* English-speaking.
* interested and able to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline dietary fiber intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline saturated fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline polyunsaturated fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline monounsaturated fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline trans fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline cholesterol intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline omega-3 fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline omega-6 fat intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline calcium intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline vitamin D intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline folate intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline potassium intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline magnesium intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline vitamin B6 intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline vitamin B12 intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline fruit intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline vegetable intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline legume intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline whole grain intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline nut and seed intake at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline physical activity at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline Body mass index at 6 months (BMI, Kg/m2)
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change from baseline quality of life measure at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question: "do you make food choices that are healthy for your bones?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question: "do you make food choices that are healthy for your heart?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question: "do you read nutrition labels when shopping or planning for meals?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question:"do you use MyPlateTM tools to help make food choices?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question: "How confident are you that you can manage most of your health problems?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the question: "How understandable and useful is the information that your doctor or nurses have given you about your health problems or concerns?" from baseline at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Change in response to the sentence: "I play an active role in my health care and well-being."
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Health and Healing Research Education and Service, Inc.
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Health and Healing Research Education and Service, Inc.
name: Junaidah Barnett, PhD, MCH(N)
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Barnett JB, Zeng W. Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults community education program-evaluation of lifestyle behaviors: A randomized controlled trial. Front Aging. 2022 Sep 6;3:960986. doi: 10.3389/fragi.2022.960986. eCollection 2022.