Nutrition Intervention for Older Adults
(NIFOA-RT Trial)
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
Lack of effective interventions to improve diet quality among older urban adults represents a significant health problem. Simultaneously, enhancing the biomedical workforce is needed to meet growing US demands in research and science fields to address disparities in chronic disease outcomes. This project meets these demands by expanding research training opportunities for younger students to build confidence and self-efficacy that they belong in an academic research environment, while providing a relatively low-cost nutrition intervention to disseminate to help narrow these gaps.
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for older adults living in urban areas who have difficulty walking. The study aims to improve their diet quality through a nutrition program.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Nutrition Intervention
Trial Overview
The trial compares a nutrition intervention designed to help participants eat healthier with a control group receiving standard contact. It also provides research training opportunities for younger students.
How Is the Trial Designed?
2
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
A trained study team member will lead weekly live virtual group sessions for 1 hour over 12 weeks using a HIPAA-compliant online platform. The first part of each week's class will include the teaching kitchen cooking demonstration (\~30 min), and the remainder of the class will focus on dietary education. We will hold weekly meetings with the study staff to ensure standardized data collection and intervention implementation. We will enroll up to 15 participants in a virtual cohort and run multiple group sessions to reach a sample size of 90 participants. Follow-up focus groups will provide key information on intervention sustainability and discern barriers and facilitators to virtual intervention implementation and continued adherence after intervention completion.
Staff will lead weekly virtual live group health education sessions for one hour/week over 12 weeks. We will enroll up to 15 participants in each virtual class cohort and run multiple different group sessions for a total sample size of 90 participants. Health education sessions are designed to increase self-efficacy and empower older adults to take control of their own healthcare. Topics cover a broad range of healthy aging, including the importance of sleep, goal setting, self-care, and common comorbidities.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lead Sponsor
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Collaborator
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