Nutrition Counseling for People With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder
Tests nutrition counseling to help prevent heart disease in adults with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Effect of Nutritional Counseling on Anthropometry and Biomarkers in Patients Diagnosed With Schizophrenia/Psychosis or Bipolar Affective Disorder
Key facts
- Where
- Drammen, NorwaySee the 2 sites
Where in Norway
- Department of Research and Delvelopment, Mental health and Addiction, Vestre Viken Hospital TrustDrammen, NorwayTaking people
- Vestre Viken Health TrustDrammen, NorwayTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Vestre Viken Hospital Trust
- Trial code
- NCT06197048
- Record updated
- 9 January 2024
- Original description
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effect of nutritional counseling versus no treatment in patients with schizophenia or bipolar affective disorder.Read full original descriptionShow less
A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Nutritional Counseling on Anthropometry and Biomarkers in Patients Diagnosed With Schizophrenia/Psychosis or Bipolar Affective Disorder Treated at Asker DPS as Outpatients or Inpatients at Blakstad Hospital
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effect of nutritional counseling versus no treatment in patients with schizophenia or bipolar affective disorder.
The main question it aims to answer are:
• Can nutritional counseling have a preventive effect on the development of cardiovascular disease in patients with schizophenia or bipolar affective disorder?
Participants will meet a nutritionist at baseline to asess nutritional status, biochemical and anthropometric measurements. Then, half of the study population will receive nutritional counseling. After six weeks, the same baseline measurements will be repeated to examine any potential differences between the two groups. After the intervention, the control group will be offered the same counseling as the intervention group received during the study.
Inclusion: > 18 years; Diagnosed with either schizophrenia/psychosis or bipolar affective disorder; Patients treatet in Vestre Viken healthcare company, at either Asker district psychiatric center or Blakstad hospital.
Exclusion: none.