Partners & Work Packages

1	VUA	VU UNIVERSITY-VUMC AMSTERDAM (NED)
2	UCL	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK)
3	ASF	AZIENDA SANITARIA FIRENZE (ITA)
4	UI	UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND (ICE)
5	AMC	AMC MEDICAL RESEARCH (NED)
6	AU	AARHUS UNIVERSITY (DEN)
7	GGZ	GGZ INGEEST (NED)
8	UNEXE	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (UK)
9	UIB	UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS (SPA)
10	ULEI	LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY (GER)
11	EASO	EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY (UK)
12	EAAD	EUROPEAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEPRESSION (GER)
13	GAMIAN	GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS ADVOCACY NETWORKS EUROPE (BEL)

Work Package 1

Bi-directional link of food intake, nutrients and obesity with depression: observational evidence

WP Leader:

VU University-Vumc, Netherlands

Main Objectives:

Reports on the observational relation of food intake, nutrient status and obesity with depression

Main Deliverables:

To determine the bi-directional relation of food intake with (change in) depressive symptoms and incident clinical depression.
To determine the bi-directional relation between nutrient status and (change in) depressive symptoms and incident clinical depression.
To determine the bi-directional relation between obesity and (change in) depressive symptoms and incident clinical depression.
To unravel the psychological, lifestyle, and environmental mechanisms underlying the above associations.

Work Package 2

Bidirectional link of food behaviour with depression: observational and experimental evidence

WP Leader:

Aarhus University, Denmark

Main Objectives:

To determine the relation between food-related behaviour and depressive symptoms in random sample.
To determine the relation between food-related behaviour and depressive symptoms in individuals who have been diagnosed as having depression.
To determine the factors that have an impact on feasibility and ease of changes in food-related behaviours and whether the perceived ease is related to depressive symptoms.
To develop a check-list method to assess the perceived easiness of behaviour changes required to decrease the depressive symptoms in interventions and counselling.

Main Deliverables:

Reports on the observational relationship of food-related behaviour with depression.
Reports on feasibility of food-related behaviour changes and method to assess feasibility

Work Package 3

Feasibility of nutritional strategies to prevent depression: trial evidence

WP Leader:

University of the Balearic Islands , Spain

Main Objectives:

To prepare the multi-country prevention trial on nutritional strategies to prevent depression.
To recruit subjects for the multi-country prevention trial on nutritional strategies to prevent depression.
To execute the multi-country prevention trial on nutritional strategies to prevent depression.
To collect data of the multi-country prevention trial on nutritional strategies to prevent depression.
To determine the feasibility of the nutritional strategies.

Main Deliverables:

Report on the overall design of the prevention trial
Report on the feasibility of nutritional strategies for the prevention of depression

Work Package 4

Effectiveness and sustainability of nutritional strategies to prevent depression: trial evidence

WP Leader:

GGZ InGeest , Netherlands

Main Objectives:

To develop a procedure for data-delivery, aggregation and integration of nationally collected data in the multi-country randomized controlled prevention trial.
To set up a web-based infrastructure for collection, storage and issuing of the trial data.
To determine the effectiveness of the nutritional strategies in preventing depression.
To determine the impact of nutritional strategies on sustainability and other identified secondary outcomes.
To determine psychological and socio-environmental factors that mediate and/or moderate the effect of nutritional strategies in preventing depression.

Main Deliverables:

Data catalogue and codebook about prevention trial data
Reports on the effectiveness and sustainability of nutritional strategies for the prevention of depression and mediating/moderating pathways
Report on defined secondary outcomes of nutritional strategies for the prevention of depression

Work Package 5

Integration of science and development of nutritional strategies for prevention of depression

WP Leader:

AMC , Netherlands

Main Objectives:

To integrate the obtained scientific knowledge from the conducted observational studies, short-term experiments and long-term intervention study.
To develop evidence-based optimal nutritional strategies for the prevention depression, using direct input from stakeholders and taking demographic trends and sustainability issues into account.

Main Deliverables:

Report on evidence-based, feasible, effective and sustainable nutritional strategies for the prevention of depression

Work Package 6

Dissemination of nutritional strategies to prevent depression

WP Leader:

European Association for the Study of Obesity, UK

Main Objectives:

To produce and disseminate information on MooDFOOD, its objectives, research approaches and results to the project’s target audiences: the scientific community, media, general public, policy makers, health professionals and relevant scientific societies, relevant industries (including SMEs), consumer organisations. Focus will be on both European and International dissemination.
To develop a strategy for the translation of the scientific outputs and results into practical tools (guidelines, policy documents, research methods etc.) to prevent depression through nutritional strategies.
To promote the use of project results and implementation tools by European and International stakeholders and target groups.

Main Deliverables:

Interim workshops at international congresses
Guidelines and practical tools to prevent depression using nutritional strategies
Classical and Online dissemination
Final project workshop and webinar
Scientific summary paper

Work Package 7

Project management and coordination

WP Leader:

VU University-Vumc, Netherlands

Main Objectives:

To ensure timely implementation of the consortium in conformity with the EC contract and the consortium agreement and a successful meeting of all aims
To create a collaborative working platform for use in all work packages
To ensure high quality work by partners and excellence in science

Main Deliverables:

Periodic and final reports