Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: BMI, Blood Pressure
In brief
Food insecurity increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. American Indians (AIs) in Oklahoma are three times as likely as Whites to be food-insecure (21% vs. 7%) and have burdens of obesity (42%), hypertension (38%), and diabetes (15%) that exceed those of the general US population. While individual-level obesity prevention efforts have been implemented with AIs, few environmental interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve fruit and vegetable intake have been conducted with tribal communities. Community gardening interventions have been shown to increase vegetable and fruit intake, reduce food insecurity, and lower BMI among children and adults; however, to date, no such interventions have been evaluated with AI families. The proposed study, entitled "Food Equity Resource and Sustainability for Health (FRESH)," will assess the impact of a tribally-initiated community gardening intervention on vegetable and fruit intake, food insecurity, BMI, and blood pressure in families living on the Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03251950
- Run by
- Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
- People needed
- 522
- Starts
- 2017-08-22
- Expected to finish
- 2018-06-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-03-19
Who can join
Age: 3 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- American Indian Children aged 3-5 who attend one of the Osage Nation Early Childhood Programs
- Parents of American Indian children who are aged 18 years and older and whose children are enrolled in Osage Nation Early Childhood Programs
You may not qualify if…
- Anyone not meeting the aforementioned inclusion criteria
Where it is running
- Oklahoma State Univeristy Center for Health Sciences — Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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