Fruit and Vegetable Rx + Home Plate, a Multilevel Intervention to Improve Dietary Disparities Among Low-income Children and Families
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Food Insecurity
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Enrollment
- 120
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Diet quality
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a research study to test if fruit and vegetable prescription vouchers (FVRx) and a cooking skills program (Home Plate) can improve dietary quality, food security (access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food), feelings about the home and community food environments, and caregiver mental health.
Detailed Description
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effect of produce prescriptions (vouchers that can be redeemed for produce at participating locations, "FVRx") and a cooking skills program (Home Plate) on dietary quality, food security, perceptions of the food environment, and mental health. Investigators also aim to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the programs.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Diet quality
Time Frame: baseline and 8 weeks
Diet quality of the child will be measured by use of an automated self-administered 24-hour dietary recall system (ASA24), completed by the child's caregiver. The ASA24 is a web-based tool that enables automatically coded, self-administered 24-hour diet recalls, providing high-quality dietary data. The ASA24 system is adapted from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Automated Multiple-Pass Method, which has been validated. Validation and evaluation studies of ASA24 have found close agreement with standardized interview-administered 24 hour recall.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Food security - Hunger Coping Scale(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Food security - 2-item Nutrition Security Screener (NSS)(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Program feasibility - Home Plate Class Attendance(8 weeks)
- Program feasibility - Participant Satisfaction(8 weeks)
- Change in Food security - Food Security Survey(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Caregiver diet quality(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Caregiver perceived food environment(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Urine Metabolites(Baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Caregiver mental health - Depression(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Change in Caregiver mental health - Loneliness(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Program feasibility - Voucher Redemption(8 weeks)