Food as Medicine: Evaluating the Impact of Home-delivered Vegetables and Whole Grains on Diet of Food-insecure Families

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Conditions studied: Food Insecurity, Nutrition Poor

In brief

Food insecurity predisposes to poor diet, thereby increasing risk for diet-sensitive chronic disease. This trial is to evaluate the impact of a model of weekly home-delivery of locally-grown vegetables along with selected whole grains on diet among low-income children living in a household with food insecurity. The investigators plan to enroll children (10-15 years) who will participate along with their parent/caregiver. Intervention will consist of 12 weeks of weekly delivered food plus recipes and text-messaged links to cooking instruction. Dyads will be randomized (2:1) to either immediate intervention or a wait-list control group, and diet and diet-related behaviors will be assessed in-person as well as over the telephone.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04639687

Run by

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

People needed

68

Starts

2019-04-03

Expected to finish

2021-01-27

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-28

Who can join

Age: 10 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• child between 10-15 at time of enrollment whose caregiver screens as positive for food insecurity during visit to primary clinic
• child must reside in household with caregiver at least 5 out of 7 days a week
• dyad must reside in Oakland, CA (delivery range for farm)

You may not qualify if…

• Not able to consume wheat or other grains
• Caregiver and child must have cognitive capability to complete survey materials (exclude non-verbal autistic, developmental delay)
• Unable to communicate in either English or Spanish

Where it is running

• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland — Oakland, California, United States

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