NCT06899607

Fibre and Mental Wellbeing Feasibility Trial

Bridging the Fibre Gap: A Pre-post Single-arm Feasibility Trial on Increased Fibre Intake and Mental Wellbeing

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Reading · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This feasibility study will explore whether adding an extra 10 grams of fibre to participants' daily diet for two weeks would improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Detailed description

The current pre-post single-arm feasibility trial will investigate whether increasing daily fibre intake by 10 grams for two weeks enhance depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, gut health, and optimism in 18-40 year-old young adults. Participants will be provided a list of high fibre food items. Outcome measures will be acquired before and after 2-weeks . These will include cognitive measures of measures of depression, anxiety, and stress symptomatology; sleep; gastrointestinal symptomatology; optimism.

Conditions

• Affect (Mental Function)
• Sleep
• Anxiety
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fibre arm	Increasing daily fibre intake by 10 grams

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-01
• Primary completion: 2027-09-05
• Completion: 2027-09-05
• First posted: 2025-03-28
• Last updated: 2025-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom