Exploring the Use of myfood24 (an Online Nutritional Assessment Tool) in Clinical Dietetic Practice

Dietary assessment is a key component of the dietetic care process. Assessments usually take place within dietetic consultations using methods such as 24-hour recall and paper food diaries. This study will examine the feasibility of using an online dietary assessment tool, myfood24 as an alternative to current dietary assessment practices and explore the barriers and facilitators to its use within dietetic clinical practice. This will be a mixed method study using questionnaires and semi structures interviews with both dietitians and patients. Dietitians, and patients with a range of clinical conditions referred to an NHS Dietetic Service, will be recruited. Patients will be asked to trial the system to record their food intake prior to their dietetic appointment. This data will then be used for the dietary assessment within the consultation. Following this, patients and dietitians will be interviewed about their experiences. Quantitative data will be statistically analysed, and thematic analysis will be used to analyse qualitative data.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Food Habits; Nutrition Therapy; Nutritional Disorders
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: myfood24

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 56
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Sheffield, United Kingdom
    • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged over 18 years
• Referred to the STH Dietetic Department
• Willing and able to attend a dietetic out-patient appointment
• Can read and understand English
• Have access to the internet
• Willing to engage in technology as part of their care
• Have or willing to obtain their own email address

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18 years
• Unable or unwilling to attend a dietetic out-patient appointment
• Unable to read and understand English
• No access to the internet
• Unwilling to engage in technology as part of their care
• Does not have or unwilling to obtain their own email address

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Patient Participant; Patients will be asked to complete an 3 days worth of an online dietary recall prior to their out patient appointment with the dietitian	Device: myfood24; online website for dietary analysis
Other: Dietitian Participant; The Dietitian will be asked to review the patients completed dietary recalls prior to the patient attending their out patient appointment.	Device: myfood24; online website for dietary analysis

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
System Usability	System usability score is generated using system usability scale - a validated questionnaire.	After patients have used the system. Approximately 4 to 8 weeks after baseline.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Patient Activation	Patient activation score will be generated using Patient Activation Measure (PAM) a validated questionnaire.	Baseline and end of intervention. (approximately 3 months from baseline)
Acceptability of using the system as part of dietetic care	This will be generated using (I) Acceptability questionnaire for patients using a non-validated questionnaire and (2) Through participant interviews.	The acceptability questionnaire and interviews will be completed at the end of the intervention.(approx 3 months from baseline)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Collaborators: University of Sheffield; British Dietetic Association; Dietary Assessment Ltd

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 22, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 31, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): March 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 26, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 29, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 31, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 17, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 16, 2021
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: nutrition; dietary recall
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Nutrition Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: STH19780

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

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