A Sustainable Diet for Hadassah Employees Workers

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Obesity; Physical Activity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nutritional and Activity Promotion

• Registration Number: NCT01686399
• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Brief Summary

The aim of this protocol is to use a multidisciplinary approach to convey nutrition and activity messages to randomly selected Hadassah Medical Center employees. The intervention will be for one academic year and include frontal talks, email and internet focus group interactions, public demonstrations and a focused intervention within the hospital kitchen.

The outcomes are specific parameters of dietary modifications, degree of physical activity and health related perspectives. Outcomes will be recorded at baseline and by the end of the intervention ( one year).

Detailed Description

The participants will be selected randomly from the campus employees. They will be exposed to multiple levels of health promotion at the work place as well as via multiple media tools. Analysis will be performed at baseline by using multiple nutrition and health perception questionnaires. A second group from the employees will be selected for assessment of the same outcomes at the end of the year.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-09-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-09-12
• Study First Posted: 2012-09-18
• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-03-22
• Last Update Posted: 2015-03-24
• Study Start: 2015-06
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 450

Inclusion Criteria

Hadassah medical center employees Age 21-67

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
The study has a single arm	Nutritional and Activity Promotion	The study has one arm The whole population of the campus will be exposed to the intervention. the effectiveness will be assessed using a random selection twice - before and after the intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in amount of fruit/vegetable consumption per day	one year	Amount of fruit/vegetable consumption will be evaluated via questionnaires

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Amount of physical activity per week	one year	Amount of physical activity will be assessed via questionnaires

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Center; 🇮🇱 Jerusalem Region, Israel