Compliance With Standard Care vs Ready to Eat Meals Prior to Bariatric Surgery
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Conditions studied: Bariatric Surgery Candidate
In brief
Currently, a ketosis-inducing programme, usually a liquid meal replacement, is the standard of care for pre-operative dietary management. However, compliance with liduiqd meal replacement is challenging primarily due to individual taste preferences, limited variety, having to take a liquid diet, lifestyle factors, and other obstacles. Therefore, there is a need for RTE meals to enhance patient satisfaction and compliance, ultimately resulting in improved pre-operative weight loss outcomes. Hence, this RCT study aims to determine whether Very Low Calorie Diet Ready-to-eat (VLCD RTE) meals would lead to greater compliance as measured by blood ketones and meal logging via Nutritionist Buddy app (nBuddy App) compared to standard care liquid meal replacement (Optifast) prior to bariatric surgery.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06461247
- Run by
- National University Hospital, Singapore
- People needed
- 140
- Starts
- 2024-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2026-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-09-12
Who can join
Age: 21 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults aged 21 to 65 years old
- Scheduled for bariatric surgery at least 1 month prior
- BMI ≥ 27.5 kg/m2 (with type 2 diabetes mellitus or metabolic syndrome)
- Owns a smart phone with data plan
- English speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Cognitive impairment.
- Hypothyroidism
- Chronic kidney disease
- Hypothyroidism
- Depression with ongoing psychology follow up
- Type 1 diabetes
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Pregnancy
- Heart Failure
- Active cancer or in remission for less than 5 years
- Vegetarian
- Observing the fast during the month of Ramadan
- Undergoing treatment with anti obesity medications (eg: Phentermine/Orlistat/Contrave/GLP-1 analogues etc)
Where it is running
- Alexandra Hospital — Singapore, Singapore (enrolling)
- National University Hospital — Singapore, Singapore (enrolling)
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