Rheumatology Diet Study

This study aims to collect information on rheumatology patients' dietary habits, autoimmune disease activity, dietary changes, disease symptom improvements, and perceptions on their dietary habits and how it affects their autoimmune disease. The main objective is to see if rheumatology patients change their dietary habits after their diagnosis of an autoimmune disease and if it subjectively improved their disease symptoms. It will also look at rheumatology patients' expectations for their rheumatologist when it comes to dietary advice and what resources they used to choose their new dietary habits. The study also seeks to measure the interest that rheumatology patients have in pursuing dietary changes as a means of controlling the symptoms of their autoimmune disease. It is expected that patients who changed their eating habits to healthier diets such as a Mediterranean diet would report less severe autoimmune disease symptoms. There are limited dietary recommendations for the management of many rheumatological diseases, so this study seeks to assess rheumatology patients' willingness to try dietary modifications, what improvements they had, and why they decide to make these changes in light of limited information.

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Key information

Conditions

Diet Habit Ankylosing Spondylitis Ankylosis Arthritis Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Rheumatoid Autoimmune Diseases Axial Spondyloarthritis Behavior Behavior, Animal Bone Diseases Collagen Diseases Connective Tissue Diseases Dermatomyositis Dermatomyositis/polymyositis Dry Eye Syndromes Eye Diseases Feeding Behavior Fibromyalgia Immune System Diseases Joint Diseases Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases Mouth Diseases Muscular Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Myositis Nervous System Diseases Neuromuscular Diseases Polymyositis Psoriasis Psoriatic Arthritis Rheumatic Diseases Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatologic Disease Salivary Gland Diseases Scleroderma Scleroderma, Diffuse Scleroderma, Systemic Sjogren's Syndrome Skin Diseases Skin Diseases, Papulosquamous Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Spinal Diseases Spondylarthritis Spondylarthropathies Spondylitis Spondylitis, Ankylosing Stomatognathic Diseases Systemic Lupus Erythematous Xerostomia

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

UCF Health Clinics

Orlando, Florida, 32827, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

Adults (over 18 years old) patients
established UCF Health patients
diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, dermatomyositis/polymyositis, Sjogren's Syndrome, systemic lupus erythematous, scleroderma, osteoarthritis, or fibromyalgia.

Exclusion criteria

UCF Students, Faculty or Staff
Children or Young Adults Under the age of 18
Adults over 65
Pregnant Women
Prisoners
Adults to Unable to Consent

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

To determine how diet habits and activity affects autoimmune diseases using the proper statistical tests for the data set such as t-test and ANOVA.

Time frame: 4 months

Secondary outcomes

To identify if rheumatology patients change their dietary habits after their diagnosis of an autoimmune disease and if it subjectively improved their disease symptoms.

Time frame: 4 months

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Amoy Fraser, PhD, CCRP, PMP

CONTACT

[email protected]

407-266-8742

Erica Martin, B.S.

CONTACT

[email protected]

407-266-8742

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Central Florida

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Title of Study: Eating Habits and Symptom Severity in Autoimmune Diseases: a Patient Survey

Important dates

Study start: 2024
Primary completion: 2025
Study completion: 2025
First posted: Apr 1, 2024
Registry last updated: Dec 6, 2024

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