A UK online 24h dietary recall tool: practical application V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A UK on-line 24h dietary recall tool for large scale population studies: practical application
IRAS ID
151945
Contact name
Janet Cade
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leeds
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Research summary
An online 24h dietary recall tool – myfood24 – has been developed to be used in large scale epidemiological studies. This study will test the usability, response and subject burden of using myfood24 in two cohorts: (1) subset of an existing cohort – the UK Women’s Cohort Study (UKWCS) and their families and (2) a clinical sample of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
The UKWCS was established in 1995 with baseline data from 35,000 women. These women are still being followed up for cancer and death outcomes. This new study proposes to contact a subset of 200 of these women and ask them to use myfood24 to record their diet on the previous day. We will also request that their partners, children and grandchildren (should they have any) use the tool to record their diet. This will allow inter-generational factors which affect diet, lifestyle and disease to be explored. Participants will be asked to use the tool and complete a questionnaire to evaluate their experience of using the tool.
The second cohort - women with GDM - will be recruited from the Diabetes in pregnancy clinic at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. The dietitian/research nurse will use myfood24 to measure the women’s diet at the initial clinic visit. The women will then be given access to myfood24 to measure their diet at home in their own time, in addition to their NHS care. The women will complete a questionnaire to evaluate their experience of using the tool. Women who are not prescribed medication at their second clinic visit will be invited to continue to use the tool at home to monitor diet in relation to their glucose self-monitoring. Clinical outcome data including fetal size by ultrasound scan, birth weight and gestational age will be collected and analysed in association with dietary patterns.
REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/SC/1267
Date of REC Opinion
12 Sep 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion