Does the UKDDQ measure dietary change?
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Sensitivity to change of the UK Diabetes and Diet Questionnaire in a weight management clinic
IRAS ID
204281
Contact name
Clare England
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bristol
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 16 days
Research summary
The UK Diabetes and Diet Questionnaire (UKDDQ) is a recently developed brief dietary questionnaire for use with people at risk of, or with, Type 2 diabetes living in the UK. It is a 25-item questionnaire that asks about dietary habits of importance in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is very reliable (people answer it the same way twice) and it compares as well with food diaries as other brief dietary questionnaires used in other countries. The UKDDQ can be confidently used to give a snapshot of someone's diet at a given time but we don't yet know if it can measure dietary change.
We aim to see if the UKDDQ can measure dietary change during weight loss treatment; to see if any change in the UKDDQ score relates to weight loss and to see if the UKDDQ compares with current expert dietitian assessment.
The study will be conducted in the weight management service at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. All new patients will be invited to take part in the study. If they volunteer they will be asked to complete the UKDDQ at their first appointment, after 2-3 months of treatment (exact times depend on the clinic schedules) and after 4 months. At baseline they will complete a paper copy after which they will be given the choice of completing a paper copy or an electronic version. They will be asked to give permission for us to use their weight as recorded in the clinic at these times, to use the expert assessment of the weight management dietitian as to whether or not they have made dietary changes and to access information collected by the weight management clinic on their quality of life/emotional screening questionnaires.
REC name
London - Brent Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/0945
Date of REC Opinion
17 May 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion