Dietary Practices and Beliefs in Inactive Ulcerative Colitis
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Dietary Practices and Beliefs of Patients with Inactive Ulcerative Colitis
IRAS ID
255385
Contact name
Jimmy Limdi
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 30 days
Research summary
Data on dietary beliefs and behaviour in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) are scarce. Credible evidence for the role of diet in the management of UC, including prevention of relapse, is limited and often conflicting. Increasingly, patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) show an interest in how diet may affect their disease and how diet may be used to better manage, or even “cure”, their UC. Recent reports show that patients do not feel that diet is adequately addressed by healthcare professionals leading to self-imposed, non-evidence based, dietary modifications and restrictions in an attempt to better control their disease. It is reported that dietary restriction may adversely affect nutritional intake and social life in patients with UC.
Currently, we have limited data on the factors which influence such dietary restrictions. Furthermore, the information resources influencing our patients need to be described and may form the basis for further research. Data on how dietary practices may vary with disease activity is also limited.
This study aims to obtain a better understanding of dietary practices and perceptions in patients with inactive UC and explore the sources of information influencing dietary restriction in these patients. This will be done by means of a questionnaire regarding dietary restrictions and practices which will be completed by consenting patients attending the IBD clinic.
We hope that our findings will lead to a better understanding of self-imposed dietary practices in UC such that health professionals are able to manage this subject in a manner which is more satisfactory to patients. We also anticipate that our study will enable further research in this field in order to gain a better understanding of the role of diet in IBD.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/EM/0428
Date of REC Opinion
25 Jan 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion