Evaluating an Enhanced Home-delivered Meal Program on Older Adults' Health and Well-being

Enrolling by invitation · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Diet, Healthy, Food Insecurity, Loneliness, Quality of Life

In brief

Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island (MOWRI), in partnership with the University of Connecticut (UConn), will implement and evaluate an enhanced version of its Home-Delivered Meals Program (HDMP). The project goal is to implement and test the effectiveness of an enhanced Home-Delivered Meals (HDM) service delivery approach. The enhanced approach includes community health worker (CHW) interactions and supplemental healthy grocery bags to address diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life for older adults. MOWRI participants at the highest nutritional risk will be randomized to receive standard or enhanced services in order to test the effect of the intervention on health-related outcomes. Anticipated outcomes for individuals receiving enhanced services are improvements in measures of diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life compared with those receiving standard HDM services.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06401694

Run by

University of Connecticut

People needed

1640

Starts

2024-06-20

Expected to finish

2028-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-12-16

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults who are eligible for Title III - funded Meals on Wheels assistance
• Can read and speak Spanish or English
• Are nutritionally at risk as determined by the Nutrition Risk Assessment
• Reside in the state of Rhode Island

You may not qualify if…

• Cognitive or physical limitations that prevent an individual from giving consent, as assessed by normal interactions by intake staff or study team
• Cognitive or physical limitations that prevent an individual from participating in intervention or evaluation activities, as assessed by normal interactions intake staff or study team

Where it is running

• University of Connecticut — Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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