Open Label Randomized Clinical Study to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle in Medical Students

Bogomolets National Medical University120 enrolled

Overview

The main medical and social purpose of the project "It's trendy to be healthy!" is the promotion of healthy lifestyles and healthy eating among student youth. The relevance of this project is beyond doubt, as the WHO called obesity a non-communicable epidemic, and according to research by the Jane Schiller University of Germany (Germany), as mentioned above, Ukraine topped the list of the countries with high mortality due to malnutrition

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Healthy Obesity Nutrition, Healthy Vitamin D Deficiency

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 25 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * medical students aged between 18-25 years; * presence of presence of vitamin D deficiency or insuficiency (serum total vit D3 level less than ); * signed informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * regular intake of probiotics, prebiotics, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, calcium and vit. D supplements for 3 months prior the inclusion; * previously diagnosed allergy to gut microbiota-based therapy; gastrointestinal disorders including food allergy, gluten-sensitive enteropathy, ulcerative colitis; * suffering from any psychiatric illness; presence of diabetes mellitus, chronic cardiovascular or respiratory disease, an active malignant tumor or chronic infections; participation in another clinical trial; * pregnancy or lactation; * any condition thought to be associated with poor compliance (e.g., alcoholism or drug addiction) or any condition or circumstance that would, in the opinion of the investigator, prevent completion of the study or interfere with analysis of study results.

Locations (2)

Bogomolets National Medical University

Kyiv, Ukraine

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Kyiv, Ukraine

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Changes in Rathus Assertiveness Schedule

RAS is consists of 30 questions and is divided into five subgroups, according to the scores: 0-24: very insecure; 25-48: rather unsure than confident; 49-72: average confidence value; 73-96: self-confident and 97-120: overconfident.

Time frame: 90 days compared to baseline

Changes in test "Diagnosis of situational and personal anxiety"

Test " Diagnosis of situational and personal anxiety" by Ch. D. Spielberger consists of 20 statements that refer to anxiety as a state (state of anxiety, reactive (RA) or situational anxiety (SA)) and 20 statements to define anxiety as a disposition, personality traits (anxiety property).

Time frame: 90 days compared to baseline