Medically Tailored Meals for Kids

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Pediatric Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this project is to learn whether an intervention that provides households with home-delivered healthy, frozen meals tailored to illness related conditions for 12 weeks during a child's treatment for serious illness is feasible and acceptable to the child and parent mainly responsible for the child's care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06814795

Run by

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

30

Starts

2025-11-25

Expected to finish

2027-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-01-14

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Eligible children (n=15) will:
• be under the care of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
• have completed at least one cycle of cancer chemotherapy that included an agent known to cause alterations in taste,
• expect to undergo at least two more cycles,
• be aged 12-17.9 years
• communicate in English or Spanish.
• Eligible adults (n=15) will:
• be the primary parental caregiver of a study-eligible child,
• be aged 18 years or older
• communicate in English or Spanish.

You may not qualify if…

• none if inclusion criteria are met

Where it is running

• North Carolina Basnight Cancer Hospital — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States (enrolling)

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