Health-Related Social Needs Food Boxes Delivery Program
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Conditions studied: Food Insecurity
In brief
Nourishing At Home: Health-Related Social Needs Food Boxes Delivery Program is a pilot intervention study evaluating whether home delivery of medically tailored food boxes can reduce food insecurity and improve health outcomes among pediatric families including caregiver physical and mental health, child physical health, and overall family well-being.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07643909
- Run by
- Boston Medical Center
- People needed
- 50
- Starts
- 2026-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2028-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Participant has a child younger than 18 years seen by the Boston Medical Center Pediatrics Department and the child has a qualifying Health condition [listed below]
- Screens positive for food insecurity risk (Hunger Vital Sign + 1-Item VLFS) and/or has received food support (billing code on the electronic health record for food need using a positive response to the THRIVE question "Do you need support with food? [apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), referral to food pantry]" (ICD-10 Z-59.48)), and/or has received a food insecurity resource guide and/or has received food emergency (referral to the BMC food pantry within seven days of encounter).
- Child of participant has a health-related condition such as: a behavioral health need (anxiety, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, serious emotional disturbance, serious mental illness, substance use disorder, trauma/stress disorder), complex physical health condition (autoimmune conditions, developmental disabilities, GI conditions, hematological conditions, metabolic conditions, and neurologic conditions), needs assistance with self-care tasks or more complex tasks, has repeated Emergency Department (ED) use (2 or more times in past 6 months or 4 or more times in the past 12 months).
- Participant speaks English and/or Spanish
You may not qualify if…
- High-risk adolescent pregnancy
- Postpartum <2 months
Where it is running
- Boston Medical Center, Pediatric Clinic — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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