NCT02777918

Changing Habits and Lifestyles in Older Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bournemouth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is an intervention study, aiming to increase protein intake, by increasing egg consumption in community dwelling older adults aged 55 years and over, by providing recipes to increase flavour and variety in egg dishes.

Detailed description

Individuals will be randomized to either receive the intervention or to a control group, where the intervention group will receive 6 recipes every two weeks for a 12 week period, and at the start, after 12 weeks and after 6 months egg intake, protein intake, body protein status, and various functional measures of muscle function will be assessed in both intervention and control group.

Conditions

• Eating Behaviour

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Recipe provision	6 recipes will be provided every 2 weeks by post for 12 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-30
• Completion: 2017-11-29
• First posted: 2016-05-19
• Last updated: 2019-07-29
• Results posted: 2019-07-29