Virtual Teaching Kitchen

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Metabolic Syndrome; Cardiac Health
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nutritional education

• Registration Number: NCT04509206
• Lead Sponsor: Boston University

Brief Summary

A novel way of delivering nutritional education is through experiential learning in a teaching kitchen setting. Studies have shown that patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent a series of classes that featured nutrition recommendations and cooking classes had improved cardiac health.

Boston Medical Center (BMC) serves many underserved, low-income patients and has developed an innovative strategy to combat food insecurity and its consequences. This includes a preventative food pantry, a teaching kitchen, and a rooftop farm that provides fresh produce directly to the patients. The presence of this well-established three-pronged approach places our institution in an ideal position to develop a nutritional education intervention that supports experiential learning in this high-risk population.

Given the increasing focus on providing remote experiences to minimize contact and risk of infection with Sars-COV-2, the investigators are proposing a study where patients can benefit from nutritional education virtually. Patients with food insecurity and metabolic syndrome who utilize the food pantry will be invited to an educational program conducted on zoom. The program will be run by a registered dietician and chef who will deliver education virtually. Data will be collected using surveys, phone interviews, chart review, and home monitoring to test both the feasibility of running such an intervention virtually and to explore whether attending this program improves cardiac health in patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-08-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-10
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-11
• Study Start: 2020-09-28
• Primary Completion: 2021-07-28
• Study Completion: 2021-08-13
• Status Verified: 2021-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 16

Inclusion Criteria

• Users of the food pantry
• English speaking
• Must have one of following on their EPIC problem list (Diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia or obstructive sleep apnea)
• Must have documented measured blood pressure, weight, height in the 12 months prior to the intervention.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with advanced dementia or uncontrolled psychiatric disease
• Non-english speakers since education delivered in the pilot in English
• Uncontrolled medical illness including hypertension, recent acute coronary syndrome, active malignancy or other condition that would make the subject unable to complete the study procedures

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Nutritional education	Subjects will undergo four nutritional educational classes, lasting 1 hour long, conducted over a two month period. These classes will occur on zoom and subjects will be located in their home.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
facilitators for nutritional education	12 months	information will be obtained through qualitative interviews
recruitment rates	12 months	based on number of people invited to participate, number recruited and consented and number attended
barriers to nutritional education	12 months	information will be obtained through qualitative interviews
retention rates	12 months	based on attendance at each virtual educational session

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in blood pressure (BP)	baseline, up to 6 months	Baseline BP will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will be provided with a home BP cuff. BP measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the BP app. The 6 month follow BP will be extracted from the medical chart if available.
change in blood glucose	baseline, up to 6 months	Baseline blood glucose will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will use their own glucometer to measure their blood glucose. glucose measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the glucometer. The 6 month follow blood glucose will be extracted from the medical chart if available.
knowledge of healthy foods	12 months	through qualitative interview
change in weight	baseline, up to 6 months	Baseline weight will be extracted from medical chart. Subjects will be provided with a home scale. weight measurements performed by the patient will be recorded on the scale app. The 6 month follow weight will be extracted from the medical chart if available.
change in hemoglobin A1c	baseline, 6 months	Baseline will be extracted from the chart and 6 month will be extracted from the chart if available

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Boston Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States