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Healthy Meals: A Restaurant-based Study to Promote Healthy and Allergy Adapted Diet

Study Purpose

This study evaluates the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms

Yes
Study Type

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Interventional
Eligible Ages N/A and Over
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

The inclusion and exclusion criteria were about restaurants, as a unit of randomization. This study is a cluster randomized.

Inclusion Criteria:

  • - to have signed informed consent by the restaurant owner, - to have minimum 5 tables of service, - to offer local or Mediterranean food and recipes on the menu, - to have the recipes with ingredient and cooking steps details, and.
  • - to share the food products information used in the restaurant with the research team.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • - To be an ethnic restaurant, fast-food restaurant or a restaurant with a single product like only pizza, sushi, etc.
- Lack of one of the inclusion criteria

Trial Details

Trial ID:

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NCT03826576
Phase

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N/A
Lead Sponsor

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University Rovira i Virgili
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Rosa Solà, Prof.
Principal Investigator Affiliation Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Recruiting
Countries Spain
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Intervention, Food Allergy, Food Preferences, Food Intolerance, Diet Habit, Diet Modification
Additional Details

The aim is to test the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food). The study is a 12-month restaurant-based intervention study, cluster-randomized, controlled and parallel.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Intervention Group

Intervention group will receive a Multicomponent Intervention.

No Intervention: Control Group

Control group will not receive any kind of intervention, only it will receive information about AMED criteria and allergens of food.

Interventions

Behavioral: - Multicomponent intervention

The multicomponent intervention will be consist of: Training of the restaurant staff (waiters and cookers) about Mediterranean and Healthy Diet and food allergens, Nutritional and food allergen analysis of the menu of the restaurant Improvement of the menu to follow the Mediterranian diet standards (AMED criteria), the nutritional quality of the menu and the adaptations of the menu for food allergies and food intolerances Marketing campaign about healthy and food allergen adapted menus in the restaurants

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International Sites

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Tarragona, Spain

Status

Recruiting

Address

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Reus, Tarragona, 43201

Site Contact

Rosa Solà, Prof.

rosa.sola@urv.cat

(+0034) 609906991

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