A digital health-supported Prediabetes Intervention, Management and Evaluation (PRIME) Program improves Healthy Eating Index score: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Choon Ming Ng , Kah Woon Teoh , Chun Wie Chong , Yi Ling Ng , J Simon Bell , Shaun Wen Huey Lee
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Abstract
There has been increasing interest in digital health-supported interventions to facilitate lifestyle change for diabetes prevention. In this secondary analysis of a digital health-supported Prediabetes Intervention, Management and Evaluation (PRIME) cluster randomized controlled trial, we hypothesized that PRIME can improve dietary outcomes among overweight/obese people with prediabetes in Malaysia (n = 82). PRIME Program was only meant for the healthy population without any significant conditions other than prediabetes and metabolic syndrome. The intervention group received the PRIME mobile app equipped with nutrition education modules, online peer support for motivation, nutrition quizzes for reinforcement, and face-to-face personalized counseling sessions by health coaches, supported with real-time health data while control group received usual care. The outcomes included dietary quality, nutrient intake, and food group consumption. Adjusted mixed model analysis showed that the intervention group had a significant improvement in the total healthy eating index score (+7.69%, 95% CI: 3.53-11.85, P < .001), vegetables (+0.68 servings/d, 95% CI: 0.26-1.11, P = .002), refined grains (–0.61 servings/d, 95% CI: –1.01 to –0.21, P = .003) and sodium intake (–436.06 mg, 95% CI: –677.46 to –194.66, P < .001) when compared to the control group. The present study provided data to inform practice directed at supporting the implementation of a digital health-supported lifestyle intervention in complementing and augmenting existing strategies for diabetes prevention among high-risk groups in Malaysia.
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Nutrition Research publishes original research articles, communications, and reviews on basic and applied nutrition. The mission of Nutrition Research is to serve as the journal for global communication of nutrition and life sciences research on diet and health. The field of nutrition sciences includes, but is not limited to, the study of nutrients during growth, reproduction, aging, health, and disease.
Articles covering basic and applied research on all aspects of nutrition sciences are encouraged, including: nutritional biochemistry and metabolism; metabolomics, nutrient gene interactions; nutrient requirements for health; nutrition and disease; digestion and absorption; nutritional anthropology; epidemiology; the influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on nutrition of the individual and the community; the impact of nutrient intake on disease response and behavior; the consequences of nutritional deficiency on growth and development, endocrine and nervous systems, and immunity; nutrition and gut microbiota; food intolerance and allergy; nutrient drug interactions; nutrition and aging; nutrition and cancer; obesity; diabetes; and intervention programs.