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NCT Number: NCT07838142

Improving Diet Quality of Community-Dwelling Seniors Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach

This study implements a community co-designed educational intervention program to improve diet quality of community-dwelling seniors.

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Key information

Conditions

Diet Quality Behavior Feasibility of Food Literacy Education Program Social Behavior Social Isolation Social Isolation in Older Adults

Age range

60 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Geriatric Education & Research Institute, Yishun Community Hospital

Singapore, 768024

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

(Senior Participants):

  • aged 60 years and above
  • have at least one social risk factor as assessed by community-based providers, based on criteria defined by Singapore's Agency for Integrated Care
  • able to understand and provide consent

Inclusion criteria

(Center Staff and Volunteers):

  • aged 21 years and above,
  • Active Ageing Centre (AAC) staff member, micro-jobber or volunteer
  • able to understand and provide consent.

Exclusion criteria

(Senior Participants):

  • living with helpers
  • require diet with modified consistencies due to swallowing impairment
  • moderate-severe dementia
  • multiple or severe food allergies
  • Stages 3, 4 or 5 Chronic kidney disease (CKD), or other medical conditions deemed unsuitable for participation
  • concurrently participating in other nutrition and food literacy programmes, and
  • unable to converse in English or Chinese

Exclusion criteria

(Center Staff and Volunteers):

  • require diet with modified consistencies due to swallowing impairment
  • moderate-severe dementia
  • multiple or severe food allergies
  • Stages 3, 4 or 5 Chronic kidney disease (CKD), or other medical conditions deemed unsuitable for participation
  • concurrently participating in other nutrition and food literacy programmes, and
  • unable to converse in English or Chinese

Treatment and study plan

Food Literacy Workshops

Other

The intervention is a food literacy workshop comprising 4 sessions held once every 2 weeks, up to 3 hours each. The main workshop themes are: 1) Practical ways to prepare simple and healthy meals; and 2) Basic nutrition knowledge related to the meals prepared, such as their nutrient components, links to chronic conditions and short/long-term health effects. These sessions include hands-on food preparation, tasting sessions, talks, group discussions and/or question and answer. Hands-on food preparation will focus on 'no-equipment' or 'light cooking' recipes. Food tasting involves everyday ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, proteins, nuts, seeds, spices, grains, and condiments. Group discussions will be facilitated by a study team member and will revolve around the specific themes of the workshop delivered on that day.

Primary outcomes

  1. Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A questionnaire that captures all foods consumed by the individual respondent during a 24-hour reference period and classifies foods into their corresponding GDQS food groups.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Knowledge and Literacy

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Knowledge regarding health eating self-rated on a 5-point likert scale.

  2. Behavior Change

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Self-selected factors influencing behavior and snacking habits.

  3. Adapted Nutrition Literacy Quiz

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A quiz that assesses the participant's nutrition literacy.

  4. Adapted Food Literacy Scale

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A scenario-based assessment that tests the participant's food literacy across 4 domains: Planing, Selection, Preparation, and Eating.

  5. Brief Pittsburgh' Sleep Quality Index (B-PSQI)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Abbreviated assessment of the sleep quality index.

  6. Visual Analog Scales (VAS)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Three domains (feelings of Stomach discomfort, Energy, and Mood) self-rated on a 0-10 VAS scale.

  7. Body Mass Index (BMI)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Weight (kg) divided by the square of height (m), a measure of obesity and overweightness.

  8. Timed Up and Go (TUG)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Participants are timed as they rose from a chair, walked 3-metres to-and-fro, and sat back down on the chair. A measure of physical function and performance.

  9. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 3-Item Loneliness Scale

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A 3-item questionnaire that assesses an individual's subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation.

  10. Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A 6-item validated instrument designed to measures the size, closeness, and frequency of a person's social interactions with family and friends.

  11. EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level (EQ-5D-5L)

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    A health-related quality of life questionnaire based on five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression) across five levels. An index score will be computed, and a visual-analogue scale score out of 100 will be recorded, for analysis.

  12. Program Satisfaction

    Time frame: End of 8-week intervention.

    Overall satisfaction with intervention program rated on a 5-point Likert scale.

  13. Self-Efficacy of Health Messages Delivery

    Time frame: Baseline to end of 8 weeks.

    Confidence in delivering health and nutrition-related messages, rated on 5 levels (from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree').

  14. Adapted Trust in the Community Health Worker Scale

    Time frame: End of 8 weeks

    An adapted validated scale to measure participant's trust in the trainers

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Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Geriatric Education and Research Institute

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Sep 24, 2026
Registry last updated
Sep 24, 2026

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