NCT04196426

Nutrition Education to Promote Calcium Intake Among 30-65 Year-old Women in Vietnam

Nutrition Education Intervention to Promote Dietary Calcium Intake Among Vietnamese Women Aged 30-65 Years in Rural Areas in Hanoi, Vietnam

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Tech University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 30 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Osteoporosis is an important public health problem in Vietnam, with one in ten Vietnamese women suffering from it. There is enough evidence demonstrating that low calcium intake is one of the risk factors for osteoporosis among Asian women in general and Vietnamese women in specific. It is reported that the intake of calcium among Vietnamese women is under 400 mg/day, which is less than the daily recommendation of 1,000 mg/day by the Vietnam National Institute of Nutrition, even though calcium-rich foods are largely available in Vietnam. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to promote dietary calcium intake among Vietnamese women aged 30-65 years through implementing a nutrition education intervention.

Detailed description

Vietnamese women aged 30-65 years without medical problems that could interfere with the calcium consumption, such as kidney stone, kidney and liver diseases. The women will be excluded if they are blinded, deaf, or have general learning disability. Outcomes of the study are dietary calcium intake, calcium knowledge, and osteoporosis health belief. A quantitative questionnaire is being used to collect these data.

Conditions

• Osteoporosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition education intervention about osteoporosis and calcium	The intervention is designed and developed based on the Intervention Mapping Process and the Health Belief Model. Topics of the intervention include: the importance of osteoporosis and risk factors, role of calcium in bone health and controlling the disease, calcium recommendations and sources, role of vitamin D and physical activity in calcium absorption and bone health, and how to identify calcium-rich foods in the locality and prepare meals with local calcium-rich foods. A recipe booklet containing recipes using local calcium-rich foods will be given to the participants after the end of the two nutrition lessons. Interactive activities are incorporated in each lesson to encourage the participation of participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-10
• Primary completion: 2019-08-10
• Completion: 2019-08-10
• First posted: 2019-12-12
• Last updated: 2019-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Vietnam