Bringing Healthy Meals Home: a shared-meals intervention for wellbeing and healthy eating in nurses

Authors
Category Primary study
Registry of TrialsAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
Year 2026
INTERVENTION: Description of the Intervention The intervention will enable staff to share meals in socially positive ways through the provision of family‐size meal kits (for 4 people), 3 times a week, for 6 weeks at no cost. Meal kits will include recipes and ingredient to prepare 3 meals per week, for 4 people. Meals generally include a protein, starch, and at least 2 vegetables. Participants are asked to prepare the meals as indicated and to share the meals as it suits them. Participants are also asked to complete short weekly surveys that assess what meals have been prepared and shared. CONDITION: burnout;poor dietary intake;wellbeing; ; burnout ; poor dietary intake ; wellbeing Diet and Nutrition ‐ Other diet and nutrition disorders Public Health ‐ Health promotion/education PRIMARY OUTCOME: Burnout[Copenhagen Burnout Inventory Baseline, 1 week following intervention completion] SECONDARY OUTCOME: diet quality[Mini‐EAT assessment tool baseline, 1 week following intervention completion] overall health[Veggie Meter measuring skin carotenoid levels baseline, 1 week following intervention completion] wellbeing[WHO‐5 Wellbeing inde Xbaseline, 1 week following intervention completion] INCLUSION CRITERIA: Nurses (including midwives) employed at Mater South Brisbane are eligible to participate in the study.
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First added on: Jul 25, 2026