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| Sheba Medical Center | OTHER_GOV |
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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.
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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention: Nutritional counseling + CCTP | Active Comparator | Nutritional counseling + Culinary Coaching Telemedicine Program (CCTP) |
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| Control: Nutritional counseling only | Active Comparator | Two 30-minute nutritional counseling sessions |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| CCTP | Behavioral | 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. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Body weight at 6 months | 5% decrease in body weight (kg) in the intervention arm as compared to control. measured by a registered dietitian. | Six months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Body weight | Body weight (kg), measured by a registered dietitian | 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 |
| Culinary attitude & self-efficacy |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Rani Polak, MA | Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Spaulding Rehabilitation hospitle | Charlestown | Massachusetts | 02129 | United States | ||
| Sheba Medical Center |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 41947527 | Derived | 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. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D050177 | Overweight |
| D009765 | Obesity |
| ID | Term |
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| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D001835 | Body Weight |
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| D015596 | Nutrition Assessment |
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| D003625 | Data Collection |
| D004812 | Epidemiologic Methods |
| D008919 | Investigative Techniques |
| D017531 | Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms |
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| Nutritional counseling | Behavioral | Two 30-minute nutritional counseling sessions |
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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). |
| 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 |
| 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)) | 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 |
| 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) | 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 |
| 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)) | 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 |
| Blood pressure | blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic), measured in a seated position by a nurse using a sphygmometer | 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 |
| Lipid profile | Lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol and triglycerides), measured from a blood sample drawn | 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 |
| HbA1c | HbA1c, measured from a blood sample drawn | 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 |
| Lean body mass | Lean body mass (g) will measured using Bone Densitometry | Lean body mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention |
| Total fat mass | Total fat mass (g, %fat) will measured using Bone Densitometry | Total fat mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention |
| Trunk fat mass | Trunk fat mass (g, %fat) will measured using Bone Densitometry | Trunk fat mass will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention |
| 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 | Body composition will be obtained at baseline, and at 6 months after the beginning of the intervention |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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. | 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 |
| 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. | 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 |
| 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. | Subjects perception of the program will be obtained using in-depth interview after the intervention (at 3 months). |
| 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 | Coping with stress will be obtain through the 2 months of the pick COVID-19 epidemic |
| Ramat Gan |
| Israel |
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| Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D011787 | Quality of Health Care |
| D017530 | Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |
| D015991 | Epidemiologic Measurements |
| D011634 | Public Health |
| D004778 | Environment and Public Health |