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Effect of Nutritional Counseling and Mediterranean Diet on Patients With Diverticular Disease

NCT06797739 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2025-01-28

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Summary

Diverticular Disease (DD) is a frequent condition in Western populations and may be associated with complications including bleeding, perforation, acute diverticulitis, and colon strictures. Severity of diverticular disease and its association with prognosis in relation to surgery using the Diverticular Inflammation and Complication Assessment (DICA) classification has been validated in several studies. A sedentary lifestyle, poor fibre intake and other unhealthy dietary habits have been associated with DD. On the contrary, the Mediterranean Diet (MD), which involves factors such as consuming locally grown food products, family meals, conviviality, involvement in the preparation of meals, as well as high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruit and cereals, medium intake of fish, low intake of meat and saturated fat, high intake of unsaturated fat (particularly olive oil), a medium-low intake of dairy products (yogurt and cheese), and a moderate intake of wine, seems to protect against DD. Moreover, populations that follow the MD pattern show a 50% lower rate of cardiovascular mortality due to cardiovascular disease and show highest longevity. A common finding in clinical practice is that a majority of patients undergoing a new diet stop to correctly follow the diet in the long term, suggesting the importance of periodic counselling for patients.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of MD on DD and on severity of DD, and to explore the impact of incorporating a dietitian-driven counselling program in this condition.

Conditions

  • Diverticular Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

Nutritional counselling

Patients will be asked to follow the Mediterranean Diet and to participate to an educational program.

OTHER

Diet

Patients will be asked to follow Mediterranean Diet only

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Regione del Veneto - AULSS n. 7 Pedemontana

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antonio Ferronato, MD · UOSD Endoscopia - Ospedale Alto Vicentino - AULSS 7 Pedemontana

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-04
Primary Completion
2024-12-16
Completion
2025-04-04

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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