Growing Healthy Hearts: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial to Test Gardening as an Intervention to Improve Health
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Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases
In brief
The purpose of this study is to test the effect of group-based nutrition advice plus gardening (intervention) versus group-based nutrition advice alone on dietary intake of fruits and vegetables, physical activity, and lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04207268
- Run by
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2019-12-19
- Expected to finish
- 2023-10-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2022-06-22
Who can join
Age: 20 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Are at least 20 years old
- Have transportation and are willing to travel to the Hershey Community Garden
- Have any two health conditions or risk factors for CVD. These include, but are not limited to:
- Any history of cardiovascular disease
- Any family history of premature cardiovascular disease
- Any history of stroke
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Overweight/obesity (BMI >=25)
- Diabetes
- Current or past Tobacco use
You may not qualify if…
- Currently tends a vegetable garden
- Moving out of the area in the next 4 months
- Non-English speaking
- Pregnant women
- Participation in a past gardening study
- Medical conditions or medications that limit ability to freely increase dietary intake of fruits and vegetables (e.g., kidney failure, dialysis)
- A medical condition that precludes safe pursuit of gardening, i.e., recent heart conditions (e.g., heart failure, stroke, heart attack), recent or pending surgery, severe orthopedic conditions, pending hip/knee replacement, paralysis, dementia, blindness, unstable angina or uncontrolled arrhythmias, or uncontrolled asthma or allergies.
- History of difficulty obtaining blood samples or fear of needles
Where it is running
- Penn State College of Medicine — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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