Characteristics of European adults who dropped out from the Food4Me Internet-based personalised nutrition intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterise participants who dropped out of the Food4Me Proof-of-Principle study.

Design

The Food4Me study was an Internet-based, 6-month, four-arm, randomised controlled trial. The control group received generalised dietary and lifestyle recommendations, whereas participants randomised to three different levels of personalised nutrition (PN) received advice based on dietary, phenotypic and/or genotypic data, respectively (with either more or less frequent feedback).

Setting

Seven recruitment sites: UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Poland and Greece.

Subjects

Adults aged 18-79 years (n 1607).

Results

A total of 337 (21 %) participants dropped out during the intervention. At baseline, dropouts had higher BMI (0·5 kg/m2; P<0·001)

SUBMITTER: Livingstone KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261617 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature