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Evaluating the Impact of a Culinary Coaching Tele-medicine Program

A study testing CCTP and Nutritional counseling in people with Overweight and Obesity, run by Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital at 2 sites in 2 countries.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Introduction: Obesity is a major public health problem and adopting healthy lifestyle habits, while effective, is challenging in real-world settings. Culinary coaching is a behavioral intervention that aims to improve nutrition and overall health by facilitating home cooking through an active learning process that… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 25 to 70 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Overweight, Obesity
What is being tested?
CCTP and Nutritional counseling
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
75 participants
Where
2 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
20 May 2019to 19 Sep 2022
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 25 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Stable oral medications for the past 3 months (or with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are well controlled (Hga1C<7.5) and on stable oral medications for the past 6 months
  • Body mass index (BMI) equal or greater than 27.5 Kg/m2 and equal or lower than 35 Kg/m2.
  • Subjects who will agree to be randomized to either one of the 2 study arms
  • Accessible by phone, and able to watch online videos.
  • English (Spaulding) or Hebrew (Sheba) speaking subjects
  • At least self-report one visit with a physician or dietitian in the last 12 months.

Who cannot join

  • Pregnant or nursing women within the past 6 months
  • Weight loss medications (e.g., topiramate, buproprion, orlistat) within the past 6 months or medications likely to cause weight gain or prevent weight loss (e.g., corticosteroids, lithium, olanzapine, risperidone, clozapine
  • Either type 1 or 2 diabetes who are on insulin
  • Uncontrolled hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism
  • Serious medical conditions likely to hinder accurate measurement of weight, or for which weight loss is contraindicated, or which would cause weight loss (e.g., end stage renal disease on dialysis, cancer diagnosis or treatment within 2 years)
  • Unstable angina or with myocardial infarction, stroke or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease procedure within 6 months prior to screening
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  • Self-reported average consumption of > 14 alcoholic drink per week
  • Prior or planned bariatric surgery
  • Unintentional weight loss within 6 months of enrollment (≥ 5% of body weight), or Intentional weight loss within 6 months (≥ 5% of body weight)
  • Subjects following specific dietetic recommendations (e.g., celiac sprue, cystic fibrosis)
  • Subjects with eating disorders, or any psychiatric hospitalization in last year prior to screening.

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 2 countries.

2 sites in 2 countries

United States1 site
  • Spaulding Rehabilitation hospitle

    Charlestown, Massachusetts, 02129

Other trials in United States

Israel1 site
  • Sheba Medical Center

    Ramat Gan

Other trials in Israel

About this study

Official title: Evaluating the Impact of a Culinary Coaching Telemedicine Program on Body Weight and Metabolic Outcomes - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Introduction: Obesity is a major public health problem and adopting healthy lifestyle habits, while effective, is challenging in real-world settings. Culinary coaching is a behavioral intervention that aims to improve nutrition and overall health by facilitating home cooking through an active learning process that combines culinary training and health coaching. Our goal is to evaluate whether a culinary coaching telemedicine program (twelve 30-minute sessions) will significantly improve outcomes among subjects with overweight or obesity.

General hypothesis: A culinary coaching telemedicine program will result in significant weight loss, and improvement in culinary attitude and self-efficacy, nutritional intake, and metabolic outcomes.

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Methods: This is a two-site, 36-month randomized controlled trial in which study participants between the ages of 25 to 70, with 27.5 ≤ BMI ≤ 35 Kg/m2 will be randomly assigned to nutritional counseling combined with a structured culinary coaching program or to nutritional counseling group (18 intervention, 18 control at each site). Intervention will include a 3-month culinary coaching telemedicine program with outcome data collected periodically for 12 months. The pre-defined primary outcome is body weight loss at 6 months, and secondary outcomes include change in body weight and composition at 1 year, as well as culinary attitudes and self-efficacy through a validated questionnaire, nutritional intake, lipid profile, blood pressure, and HgA1c (glycated hemoglobin); and participants' perception of the program.

Potential impact: The investigators believe that this program has a potential to be a viable tool in promoting effective and scalable home cooking interventions aimed at improved nutrition and health outcomes in overweight and obesity.

Conditions
Overweight, Obesity
Being tested
CCTP, Nutritional counseling
Keywords
Home cooking, Telemedicine, Nutrition, Health coaching
Medical subject headings
Overweight, Obesity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • CCTPBehavioural

    Twelve weekly one-on-one 30-minute tele-sessions through video conference. At the first session, subjects identify their vision regarding home cooking and 3-month goals. During each subsequent meeting, subjects will review their progress towards reaching the prior week's culinary goals and identify goals for the coming week, using a self-discovery process. When patients detect a new culinary skill that is necessary for their progress, s/he will either be taught through discussions or referred to active learning from a Culinary Resource Center.

  • Nutritional counselingBehavioural

    Two 30-minute nutritional counseling sessions

Study groups in NCT03823469
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Intervention: Nutritional counseling + CCTPActive comparatorNutritional counseling + Culinary Coaching Telemedicine Program (CCTP)
Receives: Behavioral: CCTP; Behavioral: Nutritional counseling
Control: Nutritional counseling onlyActive comparatorTwo 30-minute nutritional counseling sessions
Receives: Behavioral: Nutritional counseling

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Body weight at 6 months

    5% decrease in body weight (kg) in the intervention arm as compared to control. measured by a registered dietitian.

    Measured: Six months

Secondary outcomes (17)
  1. Body weight

    Body weight (kg), measured by a registered dietitian

    Measured: Body weight will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  2. Culinary attitude & self-efficacy

    Culinary attitudes and self-efficacy will be evaluated by the Cooking With a Chef (CWC) Instrument. This is a 22-item self-administered Likert scale questionnaire that generates three subscales: 1) the cooking techniques and meal preparation self-efficacy subscale (14 items; 1 - not al all confident; 5- extremely confident; sub-scale range 14-70), 2) the negative cooking attitudes subscale (4 items; 1 - strongly disagree; 5 - strongly agree; sub-scale range 4-20), and, 3) the self-efficacy to consume fruit and vegetables subscale (5 items; 1 - not al all confident; 5- extremely confident; sub-scale range 5-25).

    Measured: Culinary attitude & self-efficacy will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  3. Nutritional intake

    Nutritional intake will be evaluated by a 4-day food record. Intake will be analyzed for its caloric content (kcal), saturated fats(g), trans fats(g), legumes (g), fruits (g), red and processed meat (g), sugars(g), processed food(g), vegetables(g), soft drinks(g), fish(g), whole grain(g), refined grain(g), and monounsaturated fat-saturated fat ratio. Vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, whole grains, fish, monounsaturated fat-saturated fat ratio, alcohol, and meat will be aggregate to report Mediterranean index in points (1-9))

    Measured: Nutritional intake will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  4. Adherence to Mediterranean Diet

    Adherence to Mediterranean Diet will be evaluated by the validated 14 items Questionnaire of Mediterranean Diet Adherence, extracted by a dietitian from a 4-day food record (0 - low adherence; 14 - high adherence)

    Measured: Nutritional intake will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  5. Consumption of ultra-processed

    Consumption of ultra-processed food will be evaluated by the NOVE food classification, extracted by a dietitian from a 4-day food record (unprocessed or minimally processed foods (g), processed culinary ingredients (g), processed foods (g), ultra processed foods (g))

    Measured: Nutritional intake will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  6. Blood pressure

    blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic), measured in a seated position by a nurse using a sphygmometer

    Measured: Blood pressure will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  7. Lipid profile

    Lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol and triglycerides), measured from a blood sample drawn

    Measured: Lipid profile will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  8. HbA1c

    HbA1c, measured from a blood sample drawn

    Measured: HbA1c will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  9. Lean body mass

    Lean body mass (g) will measured using Bone Densitometry

    Measured: Lean body mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention

  10. Total fat mass

    Total fat mass (g, %fat) will measured using Bone Densitometry

    Measured: Total fat mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention

  11. Trunk fat mass

    Trunk fat mass (g, %fat) will measured using Bone Densitometry

    Measured: Trunk fat mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention

  12. Fat distribution

    Fat distribution will measured using Bone Densitometry. Measurements includes: android fat mass (g, %fat) and gynoid fat mass (g, %fat). Fat distribution will be extracted from Android/ Gynoid

    Measured: Body composition will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention

  13. Stages of change in relation to home cooking

    Stages of change in relation to home cooking as assessed by the validated University of Rod Island Change Assessment (URICA) Scale. This is a 32-item self-administered Likert scale questionnaire (1 - strongly disagree; 5 - strongly agree). Minimum score - 32, maximum score - 160

    Measured: Stages of change will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  14. Perceived Stress

    Perceived Stress, evaluated by the validated Perceived Stress Scale. This is a 10-item self-administered Likert scale questionnaire (0 - never; 4 - very often). Minimum score - 0, maximum score - 10.

    Measured: Perceived stress will be obtained at baseline, after the intervention (at 3 months), 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  15. Subject perceptions of the program

    Information about subjects' experiences (e.g., feelings during the CCTP; difficulties, dilemmas, and challenges during the program) will be evaluated using a structured open-ended questionnaire.

    Measured: subjects perception of the program will be obtained using open ended questionnaires at baseline, 6 months after the beginning of the intervention, and 12 months after the beginning of the intervention

  16. Subject perceptions of the program

    Information about subjects' experiences (e.g., feelings during the CCTP; difficulties, dilemmas, and challenges during the program) will be evaluated using In-depth semi-structured interview.

    Measured: Subjects perception of the program will be obtained using in-depth interview after the intervention (at 3 months).

  17. Coping with Stress

    Overall resiliency to cope with the COVID-19 epidemic with be obtained through the Brief Resilient Coping Scale and copying strategies through the Brief Cope scale

    Measured: Coping with stress will be obtain through the 2 months of the pick COVID-19 epidemic

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted30 Jan 2019
  2. Study start20 May 2019
  3. Primary completion19 Sep 2022
  4. Study completion19 Sep 2022

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
75 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03823469
Sponsor's protocol ID
2018P002115
Status last verified
Mar 2023
First submitted
15 Jan 2019
Last updated
6 Mar 2023
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Polak R, Budd MA, Finkelstein A, Goldsmith R, Goldstein R, Gray BE, Keshet R, Tirosh A. One-Year Weight Loss Following a Remote Culinary Medicine Program: A Bi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2026 May;34(5):1045-1055. doi: 10.1002/oby.70193. Epub 2026 Apr 7.

    PubMed 41947527

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing CCTP and Nutritional counseling in people with Overweight and Obesity, run by Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital at 2 sites in 2 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 6 Mar 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in United States, Israel. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Body weight at 6 months (time frame: Six months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03823469, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 6 Mar 2023.

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