NCT01124071

Korean Diet Efficacy Clinical Trial

A 13 Week Study to Examine the Effectiveness of the Korean Diet on Weight, Blood Pressure, Metabolic Parameters and Disease Control in an Australian Overweight and Obese Population.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sydney · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine: 1. the acceptability of a Korean diet to an Australian overweight and obese population 2. which Korean recipes are easily prepared 3. the effect of a Korean diet on weight, blood pressure, and metabolic complications of obesity in this population.

Detailed description

The primary endpoint (Korean diet acceptability) will be assessed by reliability tested questionnaire, dietary compliance, and quantities of food returned over the 12 weeks. Analysis of differences in weight loss will be based on all participants with a baseline and a 12-week weight assessment. In order to investigate the impact of missing data, all subjects will be analysed using last weight observation carried forward and baseline weight carried forward. Other secondary endpoints will determine the effect of the Korean diet on blood pressure, metabolic parameters and chronic metabolic disease control in the Australian population.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Provision of 2 Korean meals per day 6 days per week	At each participant's baseline visit, participant's will have an individualised lifestyle session addressing dietary and exercise goals and techniques to achieve weight loss. Participants in the Korean diet group will pick up lunch and evening meals Monday-Friday. Raw ingredients and cooking instructions will also be provided on friday for saturday meal preparation. Ongoing lifestyle sessions will be performed weekly for participants.
BEHAVIORAL	Western Diet	At each participant's baseline visit, participant's will have an individualised lifestyle session addressing dietary and exercise goals and techniques to achieve weight loss. Participants in the Western diet group will be provided with a Western recipe cookbook and food vouchers (weekly) to purchase the necessary ingredients for the Western meal preparation. Ongoing lifestyle sessions will be performed weekly for participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2010-05-14
• Last updated: 2010-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia