NCT04719260

Nutrition Thinking® Trial

Nutrition Thinking® Randomized Clinical Trial for Scientific Validation of a Nutritional Approach Based on the Values and Methodology of Design Thinking

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 82 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to scientifically validate Nutrition Thinking®, a novel nutritional approach based on the values and methodologies of Design Thinking.

Detailed description

The concept of nutrition has changed exponentially in recent decades to include a range of challenges that were not foreseen. The strength of this movement is based on the understanding of (1) the complexity with which people face their nutritional challenges; and (2) the interconnection between food systems and overlapping health risks associated with malnutrition, obesity, and climate change. Maintaining an adequate weight, a healthy and sustainable diet pattern are complex well-established challenges. However, current nutritional approaches to lose weight, based on functional experiences, often fail to promote long-term adherence to dietary recommendations and maintaining lost weight. The ambiguity and complexity that involves an interactional nutrition, based on the experiences involved in how people act at the individual level and their relationships with the environment and dynamic systems, brings up the challenge of designing meaningful learning experiences to promote a change of culture and positive impact. Current social changes demand the search for novel nutritional approaches based on methodologies that result in meaningful experiences. We need new ways to build diets that balance the needs of individuals and society as a whole, new ideas that address global challenges, new strategies that result in differences that matter, and a sense of purpose that includes everyone involved. With that in mind, Nutrition Thinking® arises as a nutritional approach based on the values and methodologies of Design Thinking, an abstraction of a mental model for addressing complex problems and conducting projects based on empathy, collaboration, and experimentation. Therefore, Nutrition Thinking® represents a new nutrition learning matrix based on experience for the co-creation of authentic and sustainable diets.

Conditions

• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition Thinking®	In the first session, the nutritionist will carry out the anamnesis through the Empathy Map and assessment of the nutritional status to define the Nutrition Briefing. The steps described by Design Thinking as understanding, observation, and point of view comprise the first phase of this session. The ideation process will proceed from the definition of the Nutrition Challenge. Prototyping is the final stage of the first session, where an initial prototype of the diet will be co-created based on visual thinking tools and the description underlying the creation of diets. Within 24 hours the individual will receive a summary of the material developed by email. The period between sessions will comprise the testing phase and the follow-up sessions the iteration phase where the experience and previous steps are revisited in order to create new insights, anthropometric measurements will be seen as reflections of the experience and not as primary outcomes of the intervention.
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Nutritional Approach	In the first session the nutritionist will carry out the food and nutritional anamnesis and assessment of the nutritional status. From this information, the nutritionist will generate the diagnostic hypothesis and determine the specific nutritional needs. The professional will be responsible for generating the dietary prescription defining the characteristics of the diet that will be delivered printed to the individual after a period of 15 days, in the second session of the protocol. The follow-up session will be based on adherence to the established conduct and monitoring of anthropometric variations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-11-01
• Completion: 2022-02-01
• First posted: 2021-01-22
• Last updated: 2021-01-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil