Vegetarian Diet in IBD (LOVIBD)

Efficacy of a Lacto-ovo Vegetarian Diet in Mild to Moderate IBD

To determine whether a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is effective in improving gastrointestinal symptoms, quality-of-life, intestinal inflammation and gut microbiota composition in mild-to-moderate IBD compared to a standard omnivorous diet.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Crohn Disease; Ulcerative Colitis
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet

Detailed Description

This study will review whether a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is an optimal dietary therapy to achieve a clinical response in mild to moderate UC and CD as an adjunctive treatment to current medical therapies. The proposed studyT will be used to evaluate the efficacy of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet together with its effect on the microbiota to create an enhanced understanding of the role diet plays in the management midl to moderate IBD. Using a socially acceptable diet it is anticipated that food-related quality-of-life measures will improve for participants. Dietary modification could be a more economical, safer and more effective means of reducing symptoms and flare-ups compared to pharmacological therapy.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 21
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Charlene Grosse; Phone Number: 0893826070; Email: Cgrosse0@our.ecu.edu.au
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Claus Christophersen; Phone Number: 0863045278; Email: c.christophersen@ecu.edu.au

Study Locations

• Australia
  • New South Wales
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
      • Liverpool Hospital
  • Western Australia
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia
      • Royal Perth Hospital
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 6111
      • St John of God Subiaco Hospital
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia
      • Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 77 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria I. Is able to provide informed consent. II. Is over the age of 18 years. III. Has a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease for over a 3-month duration that was confirmed by a specialist gastroenterologist IV. Pro-6 score of 2 to 4, partial mayo 3-6 (mild to moderate UC) or Harvey Bradshaw Index (HBI) 5 to 15 (Crohn's disease)

V. Medications:

1. Oral 5-Aminosalicylates: If taking an oral 5-Aminosalicylates the patient has used them continuously for 4 weeks and has been on a stable dose for 2 weeks prior to the screening visit.
2. Oral Corticosteroids: If taking oral corticosteroids the patient has used them continuously for 4 weeks and has been on a stable dose for 2 weeks prior to the screening visit at a dose of ≤30mg.
3. Oral Azathioprine/6MP, Methotrexate or tacrolimus: If taking one of these medications the patient has used them for a minimum of 12 weeks and has been on a stable dose for 4 weeks prior to screening.
4. Biologic therapy with infliximab, adalimumab or vedolizumab: If taking one of these medications the patient has used them for a minimum of 12 weeks
5. Rectal Preparations; 5-Aminosalicylates, corticosteroids or tacrolimus: If taking one of these medications the patient has used them continuously for 4 weeks and has been on a stable dose for 2 weeks prior to the screening visit.

VI. Willing to participate in the study and comply with the proceedings by signing a written informed consent.

VII. Free of any clinically significant disease, other than ulcerative colitis/Crohn's disease, that would interfere with the study's evaluations.

VIII. Subjects can read and understand English and is able to adhere to the study methodology and visit schedules.

Exclusion Criteria

I. Has been on antibiotics within the last four weeks. II. Has a known food allergy to nuts, soy, eggs or dairy. III. Is pregnant or breast feeding. IV. Following a vegetarian, vegan or low FODMAP diet. V. Has known dementia and the inability to understand the trial requirements. VI. Ulcerative colitis: Patients with less than 15cm of disease (proctitis) VII. Crohn's disease: Patients with severe Disease (HBI > 15) or remission (HBI<5) VIII. Patients with active extraintestinal disease, current B2 (Fixed non inflammatory stricture1 or small bowel obstruction) or B3 disease (Boneh et al, 2017)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention Group; Patients will follow a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet for an 8 week period. patients will be provided with a lacto-ovo vegetarian food box delivery service with fresh ingredients and recipes to cover four dinners per week.	Other: Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet; Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet inclusive of dairy and eggs

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with a clinical response at week 8	A clinical response is defined as a decrease from baseline in the total Mayo score of at least three points, with an accompanying decrease in the subscore for rectal bleeding or at least 1 point or an absolute subscore for rectal bleeding of 0 or 1	Week 8

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants achieving clinical remission at week 8	A clinical remission is defined by a total Mayo score of 2 points or lower, with no individual subscore exceeding 1 point or a reduction in HBI of three points	Week 8
Number of participants with changes to IBDQ score at week 8	Change in total score from baselines. IBDQ - normal quality of life score is 170 points (range 32 to 224) and a quality of life response is a change of 16 points.	Week 8
Participants Food related quality of life in IBD (Fr-QoL 29) score at week 8	Change in total score from baseline. Lowest score of 29 reflects poor quality of life, maximum score of 145 reflects highest quality of life score.	Week 8
Participants SF-36 quality of life score at week 8	SF-36- change in total score from baseline. A score of 0 reflects maximum disability, the maximum score of 100 reflects no disability.	Week 8
Number of participants achieving a change in gut microbiome diversity at week 8	The gut microbiome will be examined using ITS2, 16S rRNA gene and metagenomics.	Week 8
Number of participants with a change in beneficial gut metabolome profile at week 8	Untargeted metabolomics will be performed on stool samples using high-resolution Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-Orbitrap-MS). Metabolite identification will be established prior to statistical analysis, by matching against an in-house MS/MS spectral library of 900 metabolites and searching online spectral libraries (mzCloud, Metlin, HMDB and Massbank).	Week 8

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Edith Cowan University
• Collaborators: Royal Perth Hospital; Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group; St John of God Healthcare, Perth

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 6, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 10, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): August 10, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 26, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 12, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 20, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 15, 2024
• Last Verified: February 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Diet; Plant based diet; Lacto ovo vegetarian diet
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Digestive System Diseases; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Gastroenteritis; Intestinal Diseases; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Crohn Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: EdithCowanU

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: All data will be de-identified

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No