An Academia-Industry Partnership for Planning and Executing a Community-Based Feeding Study
Autor: | David S. Ludwig, Linda G Seger-Shippee, Gloria L Klein, Megan Sandman, Lauren Stone, Patricia K Luoto, Paul R Lakin, Julia Mw. Wong, Ralph G. Eddy, Dina Wiroll, Cara B. Ebbeling, Courtenay Devlin, Lisa Bielak |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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research partnership
business.product_category media_common.quotation_subject feeding protocol treatment fidelity Medicine (miscellaneous) Fidelity Interactive kiosk law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial Informed consent law dietary intervention 030212 general & internal medicine Baseline (configuration management) media_common 2. Zero hunger Service (business) Medical education Nutrition and Dietetics Cost–benefit analysis meal service different macronutrient diets General partnership randomized controlled trial 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Research Methodology/Study Design business Psychology Food Science |
Zdroj: | Current Developments in Nutrition |
ISSN: | 2475-2991 0206-8885 |
Popis: | A research team from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School conducted a community-based feeding study in collaboration with Framingham State University (FSU) and Sodexo, the food service contractor at FSU. The study was a randomized controlled trial, implemented on the FSU campus. For the final year of the study, a satellite feeding site was established at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School. The purpose of the study was to assess the biological effects of different macronutrient diets. An academia-industry partnership was developed to overcome common challenges associated with hospital-based feeding studies. Benefits included the following: a study site outside of Boston (reducing inconvenience for participants), access to a large commercial kitchen and study-specific kiosk (promoting efficiency), collaboration with Sodexo chefs (ensuring palatability of meals), and opportunity to procure food from contracted vendors. The research (academia) and food service (industry) teams worked together to design, plan, and execute intervention protocols using an integrated approach. During execution, the research team was primarily responsible for overseeing treatment fidelity, whereas the food service team provided culinary expertise, with a strong focus on hospitality and food quality. The study was conducted in 3 cohorts between August 2014 and May 2017. Participants received all of their food for ∼30 wk, totaling >160,000 meals. For all 3 cohorts combined, 234 participants provided informed consent, 229 started a standard run-in weight-loss diet, 164 lost a mean ± SD 12% ± 2% of baseline body weight and were randomly assigned to different macronutrient diets for weight-loss maintenance, and 148 completed the study. During the final and largest cohort, as many as 114 participants received daily meals concurrently. The daily cost per participant for preparation and service of weighed meals and snacks was ∼$65. This academia-industry partnership provides a model for controlled feeding protocols in nutrition research, potentially with enhanced cost-effectiveness, practicality, and generalizability. This trial was registered at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov as {"type":"clinical-trial","attrs":{"text":"NCT02068885","term_id":"NCT02068885"}}NCT02068885. |
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