NCT07299682Withdrawn
Facilitating Effective Eating With DoddleBags: A Single-Arm Acceptability Study Of DoddleBags to Assess Impact on Self Feeding Behaviours in a Huntington's Disease Population
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 May 2026
Reason given: No recruitment
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Primary Objectives * To assess the acceptability of using the DoddleBags feeding aid in people with HD, by using a food diary to track food intake and using semi-structured interviews to ask questions about how easy or difficult it was to use a DoddleBag for each meal compared to not using one, and learn more about the impact of using DoddleBags on self-feeding behaviours. * To review the impact of using DoddleBags during mealtimes on the weight and BMI of each participant. * To review the impact of using DoddleBags during mealtimes on episodes of choking of each participant. Secondary Objectives * To evaluate the impact of using DoddleBags on participants' attitudes towards mealtimes and eating, using a short battery of mood and eating questionnaires. * To measure how incorporating DoddleBags into mealtimes affects participants' perceived quality of life, using a short battery of mood and eating questionnaires. * To assess the acceptability of the short battery of mood and eating questionnaires within a population of people with HD.
- Status (registry)
- Withdrawn
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 0 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Primary completion date
- 31 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Hull
- Diseases
- Huntington's disease
- NCT number
- NCT07299682
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Other illness
- The presence of a pre-existing neurological or movement disorder that could mimic, mask, or otherwise occlude the symptoms of Huntington's Disease.
Other
- Failing to meet the inclusion criteria.
- Current use of DoddleBags as a feeding aid outside of this research.
- Ability to regularly self-feed in a safe and effective manner rendering the integration of DoddleBags into one's lifestyle moot.
- Use of a mandated/recommended diet that would be incompatible with DoddleBags, such as mandated use of non-pureed or non-soft foods.
- Inability or unwillingness to engage with any specific aspects of the research, including completion of the food diaries, interviews or questionnaires, as well as being unable to provide informed consent.
Who the study is looking for
- Aged 18 or over at the time of recruitment.
- Genetic confirmation of the HD gene expansion, defined as a CAG repeat length of ≥40 CAG repeats on the long allele.
- Chorea, uncontrollable bodily movements, to the extent that it, in the opinion of the participant, inhibits normal or typical use of an eating utensil such as a fork or spoon.
- AND/OR Cognitive issues that make it impractical for the participant to engage in self-feeding behaviours in a safe and effective manner, perhaps but not necessarily requiring the input of a carer or companion to feed the participant.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (7)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge University Hospitals | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Cardiff University | Cardiff | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals | Leeds | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Leicester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Walton Centre NHST | Liverpool | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Sheffield Children's Hospital | Sheffield | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
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