Adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic on Building Research in Diet and Cognition (BRIDGE) trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the research landscape for clinical trials, requiring thoughtful consideration regarding how to handle the risks and benefits of continuing them.

Design

This brief report describes the experience of adapting the Building Research in Diet and Cognition (BRIDGE) study, a randomized clinical trial examining the effects of the Mediterranean diet, with and without weight loss, on cognitive functioning in 185 older obese African American adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measurement

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) developed an expedited amendment process for research shifting to remote data collection. We conducted the study in three consecutive groups. For group 3, 14-month data collection period, we adapted our p

SUBMITTER: Fitzgibbon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8284687 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature