Investigating Food Intake Across the Adult Life Course and Relevant Communication Strategies
June 23, 2025 updated by: Stella Lignou, University of Reading
This project will investigate the effects of different delivery strategies (e.g., personalised dietary advice vs generalised population healthy eating guidance) and individual consumption differences (e.g., eating styles/speeds and food types/preferences) on dietary fibre intake across the adult life-course over a 6-month period.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
- does dietary fibre-related knowledge and intake vary across the adult life-course?
- what are the common barriers to dietary fibre consumption and how this modulates with increasing age?
- what is the role of individual consumption differences on subsequent dietary fibre consumption?
- can targeted dietary advice compared with general population healthy eating guidance delivered by the eNutri app promote dietary fibre intake?
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
336
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Berkshire
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Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, RG6 6DZ
- Department of Food and Nutritional Science, University of Reading
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion Criteria
-adults aged 18 years and above
Exclusion Criteria
- health conditions impacting fibre intake (e.g., IBD, IBS, colorectal cancer, Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis)
- pregnant or breastfeeding
- food allergies/intolerances
- following a weight-loss diet
- no digital device
- living outside of the UK
- cognition impairments (such as dementia)
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Other: Control
Healthy eating advice
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Consumers will receive educational materials on healthy eating at two timepoints
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Experimental: Intervention
Targeted fibre-related education
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Consumers will receive monthly targeted educational materials on fibre
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Food intake
Time Frame: One, three and six months (1-hr)
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Food intake will be measured via the eNutri app
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One, three and six months (1-hr)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Food Consumption Differences
Time Frame: Visit one (1-hr)
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A series of validated questionnaires will measure the role of food-related consumption differences (e.g., foodie index, eating behaviour/rate, food preferences, mouth behaviour, food neophobia, knowledge, barriers, etc.) on subsequent food intake
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Visit one (1-hr)
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Impact of Education
Time Frame: All visits (6-months)
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Education will vary depending on group allocation: (1) targeted fibre education will be circulated monthly; and (2) healthy eating advice will be shared twice during the study duration.
Consumers will provide feedback on all materials at the end of the study
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All visits (6-months)
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Fiberscreen tool
Time Frame: month 3 and 4
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Rate frequency of consumption of ten dietary fibre-rich food categories and estimate portion size
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month 3 and 4
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Stella Lignou (PI), University of Reading
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Zenun Franco R, Fallaize R, Weech M, Hwang F, Lovegrove JA. Effectiveness of Web-Based Personalized Nutrition Advice for Adults Using the eNutri Web App: Evidence From the EatWellUK Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Apr 25;24(4):e29088. doi: 10.2196/29088.
- Norton V, Lignou S, Methven L. Influence of Age and Individual Differences on Mouthfeel Perception of Whey Protein-Fortified Products: A Review. Foods. 2021 Feb 16;10(2):433. doi: 10.3390/foods10020433.
- Zenun Franco R, Fallaize R, Lovegrove JA, Hwang F. Online dietary intake assessment using a graphical food frequency app (eNutri): Usability metrics from the EatWellUK study. PLoS One. 2018 Aug 10;13(8):e0202006. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202006. eCollection 2018.
- Norton V, Lovegrove JA, Tindall M, Garcia JR, Lignou S. Fibre4life: Investigating older adults dietary fibre preferences and the role of targeted educational materials on modulating future dietary fibre intake. Appetite. 2024 Jan 1;192:107109. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.107109. Epub 2023 Oct 31.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
September 1, 2024
Primary Completion (Actual)
June 20, 2025
Study Completion (Actual)
June 20, 2025
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 23, 2024
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
November 4, 2024
First Posted (Actual)
November 5, 2024
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
June 27, 2025
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
June 23, 2025
Last Verified
June 1, 2025
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- 26/2024
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
NO
IPD Plan Description
No personal identification data will be shared.
The study is not under an obligation to share data, however it is possible that some of the individual (unliked / non identifiable) data will be useful in a meta-analysis and, hence sharing individual participant data (IPD) will be considered.
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.
No
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