Fish Oil in Work Stress Study
- Conditions
- Work StressAlternative and Complementary Medicine - Other alternative and complementary medicine
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12610000404022
- Lead Sponsor
- HMRC
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 110
Inclusions criteria
Participants with scores below or equal to 17 on the PSS asking about stress levels over the past three months at baseline
Participants have not taken a course of fish oil in the past three months, and consumes less than two non-fried fish meals per week on average
Participants will be instructed to maintain their usual diets which will be monitored by the electronic Food Frequency Questionnaire at t=0, t=4, t= 8, t=12 and t=16 weeks
Exclusion criteria
The following criteria will used to exclude individuals from entering the study:
Participants with a know seafood allergy
Participants taking immunosuppressive medications
Participants with an inflammatory disorder
Participants with an infection
Participants that have suffered a significant trauma, such as surgery, within the last 6 months
Participants with unexplained weight loss
Participants with any kind of malignancy
Participants with any significant disease or disorder or any condition that, in the opinion of the investigators, might interfere with the study objectives.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome measure is the difference between the fish oil group and placebo group in<br>mean changes over time on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).[Baseline, week 4, week 8, week 12 and week 16]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method