An interventional study of Medical Nutrition Therapy in Brain Injuries, sponsored by University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-12-09.
Sponsored by University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Brain injury is a leading cause of disability in the United States. When survivors of brain injury recover from the initial injury and return home to live in the community, they often face chronic health conditions that warrant nutrition therapy, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and overweight and obesity. Typically, these individuals do not receive nutrition counseling.
Thus, the purpose of this clinical trial is to compare changes in diet quality between community-dwelling individuals with a history of brain injury who receive three individualized nutrition therapy sessions versus handouts only.
Our research question is:
Can nutrition counseling improve dietary intake among this population?
Participants will complete a survey, participate in three days of dietary recalls via Zoom or telephone, and receive either three individualized nutrition counseling sessions with a Registered Dietitian or standard of care (handouts).
Researchers will compare the diets of the recipients of the nutrition counseling to a control group who receives nutrition handouts to see if nutrition sessions with a Registered Dietitian improve dietary intake.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of providing nutrition therapy on diet among a cohort of community-dwelling individuals with a history of brain injury.
In this pre/post study, 134 participants with brain injury will be recruited and randomized to the control or intervention group. All participants will complete a standard set of nutrition-related questionnaires to assess weight status, co-morbid conditions, food security, stressors, stress-related eating, eating behaviors, and diet quality.
The control group will receive a packet of nutrition education materials. The intervention group will receive the packet and one-on-one nutrition counseling with a Registered Dietitian.
Follow-up data collection will include repeating the dietary recalls and questionnaires. This will allow for an evaluation of the impact of nutrition therapy on diet quality among community-dwelling individuals with brain injury.
Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of providing nutrition therapy on diet quality and stress-related eating among a cohort of community-dwelling individuals with brain injury
2,125 studies on the registry are indexed under Brain Injuries; 384 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 134 is above the median of 48 across 1,341 interventional studies indexed under Brain Injuries.
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The intervention group will be scheduled for three one-on-one sessions with a Registered Dietitian, where they will receive nutrition education and counseling. Sessions with the Registered Dietitian will include a review of the client's nutrition assessment data, development of problem list with the client, nutrition diagnosis, assessment of motivation to change, a discussion of barriers and facilitators, an intervention plan, goal setting, and monitoring and evaluation. Because individuals with brain injury may not do their own grocery shopping and meal preparation, caregivers will be encouraged to attend sessions. Checklists will be used to ensure treatment fidelity across participants and nutrition sessions. Sessions will be conducted by telehealth and will be recorded for fidelity checks and ongoing research team training. Sessions will be scheduled approximately 2 weeks apart.
Behavioral: Medical Nutrition Therapy
The control group will receive a packet of nutrition education handouts from the MyPlate program found at USDA.gov. The handouts are publicly available and represent nutrition information that could be readily accessed by individuals who want to change their dietary habits, but do not have access to services from a Registered Dietitian.
One-on-one nutrition assessment, education, and counseling with a Registered Dietitian.
Also known as: nutrition therapy, nutrition counseling, nutrition education
Change in Diet Quality
Diet quality is measured using the Healthy Eating Index Score, which ranges from 0-100. Higher scores indicate better diet quality. The score will be calculated at baseline and approximately 6 weeks later, and these timepoints will be used to calculate the change in diet quality over the study duration.
Time frame: Baseline and approximately 6 weeks later
Plan to share: No
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