Virtual Nutrition and Teaching Kitchen Intervention for Older Veterans with Impaired Mobility
This study is looking at whether a virtual nutrition program can help older Veterans with impaired mobility improve their eating habits and social connections. You might be able to join if you are a Veteran over 65, have some difficulty with walking or balance, use a walking aid, and want to eat healthier. The study will compare a "Nutrition Intervention" group, which includes weekly online cooking demonstrations and nutrition lessons, with a "Contact Control" group, which has weekly online health education sessions. Researchers will check your diet quality and how socially connected you feel at 3 and 6 months to see if the interventions are successful. The current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 180 participants. It is a randomized controlled trial, meaning participants will be assigned by chance to one of two groups.
- What's involved
- If you join, you will participate in weekly virtual live group sessions for 12 weeks. These sessions will be either 1 hour (Nutrition Intervention) or 2 hours (Contact Control) per week.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Researchers will check your diet quality and social isolation at 3 months and 6 months after the start of the study.
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Improving Dietary Quality and Social Engagement Through a Virtual Nutrition and Teaching Kitchen Intervention Among Older Veterans With Impaired Mobility
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Elizabeth A Parker, PhD RD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
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What this trial measures
- Diet quality3 month and 6 month compared to baseline
Habitual dietary intake will be assessed using three 24-h recalls via the online Automated Self-Administered 24-hour (ASA24) Dietary Assessment Tool, version (2022), developed by the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. The dietary recalls will be used to calculate diet quality using the HEI; scores range from 0 to 100; higher scores indicate better adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
- Social Isolation3 month and 6 month compared to baseline
The Lubben Social Network Scale, is a 12-item scale to assess self-reported social engagement including family and friends (Cronbach's =0.70). The total score is calculated by finding the sum of the all items. The score ranges between 0 and 60, with a higher score indicating more social engagement. The UCLA Loneliness Scale is a 20-item scale to measure subjective feelings of loneliness \& social isolation (Cronbach's 0.89\<0.94). Using a 4-point rating scale (1= never; 4 = always), participants answer 20 questions, such as "How often do you feel left out?" and "How often do you feel part of a group of friends?" Researchers later reverse-code the positively worded items so that high values mean more loneliness, and then calculate a score for each respondent by averaging their ratings. Both measures are included because they assess complementary but separate constructs