BerryCare: A Blackberry Extension Lesson Series to Facilitate Community Engagement and Phytonutrient Intake
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Dawn Brewer
- Enrollment
- 38
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in consumption of blackberries
Study Overview
Brief Summary
BerryCare teaches people about the health benefits of blackberries, how to harvest and maintain blackberry bushes and then assesses changes in knowledge and behaviors associated with blackberries and physical measurements.
Detailed Description
BerryCare seeks to teach community members how to grow thornless, erect blackberry brambles and to healthily consume fresh blackberries using Plate It Up Kentucky Proud recipes. Horticulture, nutrition, and extension experts are working together to design a blackberry-growing program that engages citizens and their community in each step of the process, from planting to harvesting berries. The lessons will be delivered by experts in their respective field, with accompanying extension publications and supplemental materials provided for replication of the curriculum in other counties.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years of age or older
Exclusion Criteria
- •Physically incapacitated
- •Mentally incapacitated
Arms & Interventions
BerryCare Participants
Subjects will be recruited to participate in a community gardening program where they will learn the benefits of both physical active gardening and consuming homegrown foods through blackberry consumption.
Intervention: Blackberry Consumption (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in consumption of blackberries
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months
Blackberry consumption will be measured in participants during pre screening and throughout the course of the study.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in LDL cholesterol(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in A1c(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in carotenoids(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in weight(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in self-reported fruit and vegetable intake(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in blood pressure(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in total cholesterol(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in waist circumference(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in knowledge(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in physical function(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in group cohesion(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
- Change in HDL cholesterol(Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months)
Investigators
Dawn Brewer
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky