The Role of Diet Education and Nutritional Counselling in the Ongoing Care of People Living With HIV in Thailand

Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre153 enrolled

Overview

To evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition education and dietary counselling to improve the nutritional status, well-being and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) attending an HIV treatment facility in Bangkok Thailand. This will be achieved by determining if dietary counselling and nutrition education has an effect on nutritional status (weight, lean body mass and fat mass), dietary intake, food security, quality of life, biochemical parameters (including total cholesterol, LDL/ HDL cholesterol and Triglyceride), experience of symptoms and patient satisfaction

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

153

Conditions

HIV Infections

Interventions

Nutrition CounsellingBEHAVIORAL

Clients will receive ongoing nutrition assessment and dietary counselling. The intervention arm will receive all baseline assessments and individual nutritional assessment, counselling and nutrition management plans using standards of practice

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 70 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * HIV positive * 18 years of age or older * Receiving ongoing care as part of the TRCARC Family Clinic (TRCARC Wellness Plus clinic) * Either ART naive or have been on stable ART for more than 6 months Exclusion Criteria: * HIV negative * Unintentional weight loss of more than 10% usual body weight, or BMI\<17 * BMI\>30 * Suspected or documented HIV related opportunistic infection * Pregnant women * Women less than 3 months post-partum

Locations (1)

Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre

Bangkok, Pathumwan, Thailand

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

body composition measured by BIA and anthropometry

Time frame: 48 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Change in dietary intake, food security, quality of life, biochemical parameters (including total cholesterol, LDL/ HDL cholesterol and Triglyceride), experience of symptoms and patient satisfaction

Time frame: 48 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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