Food as Medicine: Evaluating the Impact of Home-delivered Vegetables and Whole Grains on Diet of Food-insecure Families
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 68
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- vegetable consumption (servings/day) for child
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
Children and their families who are seen at the investigators primary care clinic will be screened for eligibility by the research team study staff, and caregiver/parents will be asked a short 2-item screener about access to food. This screener has been called the "Hunger Vital Sign". When a screen for household food security is positive, caregivers are invited to participate in this study along with their child, as a dyad.
This is a randomized clinical trial. The first activity consists of an in-person visit where child and caregiver answer survey questions related to diet (specifically regarding vegetable and whole grain purchase and consumption). Anthropometrics are measured. The child has a 24-hour diet recall that is conducted in person at this visit, and then two more times in the intervening time (approximately 2 weeks). They are randomized (2:1) at this visit to either receive 12 weeks of deliveries immediately (starting in approximately 2 weeks) or after a delay of 3 months, when they serve as the delayed-intervention control group.
Immediate intervention group receives a weekly delivery of vegetables and whole grains as well as 1-2 weekly text messages that contain education such as links to cooking tips and videos.
After 3 months, both immediate intervention and the delayed intervention groups return for a second in-person visit, and complete all of the visit activities. Delayed intervention group starts their deliveries at this point.
After 3 months, the delayed intervention group returns for a third in-person visit, though the immediate intervention participants complete their follow-up survey questions over the telephone, only.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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)
排除标准
- •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
结局指标
主要结局
vegetable consumption (servings/day) for child
时间窗: 6 months
24-diet diet recall (total vegetables)
whole grains consumption (ounce equivalents/day) for child
时间窗: 6 months
24-diet diet recall (total vegetables)
reported total cups of vegetables per day (for adult)
时间窗: 6 months
Fruit and Vegetable checklist
次要结局
- food security(6 months)
- Body mass Index(6 months)
- Liking Scale (Vegetables)(6 months)
- Liking Scale (Whole grains)(6 months)