Impact of Online Ordering on Low-Income Adults' Food Security in Online Food Pantry Settings

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Food Security
• Interventions: Behavioral: Transition to Online Ordering

• Registration Number: NCT05752721
• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health

Brief Summary

The primary objectives of this study are to determine whether the transition to online ordering at a choice-based food pantry network influences food security status among low-income adults and determining whether there are differences in impact by age group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-02-21
• Study First Posted: 2023-03-03
• Study Start: 2023-04-21
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-15
• Study Completion: 2023-12-15
• Status Verified: 2024-07
• Results First Submitted: 2024-07-29
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-07-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-29
• Results First Posted: 2024-08-20
• Last Update Posted: 2024-08-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 204

Inclusion Criteria

• aged 18 years or older
• have visited a food pantry that either is or is not scheduled to transition to online ordering at least once
• have capacity and willingness to provide consent
• speaks English

Exclusion Criteria

• aged less than 18 years
• have not visited a food pantry that either is or is not scheduled to transition to online ordering at least once
• does not speak English

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Food Pantry Scheduled to Transition to Online Ordering	Transition to Online Ordering	Low-income adults who have visited the food pantry that is scheduled to transition to online ordering at least once. Participants will complete an in-person survey and a research assistant will record the food items they received in the relevant visit to the pantry. After the transition to online ordering at the intervention food pantry, participants will again complete the survey. Food selections for participants in the this arm will be accessible through the online ordering platform.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form Score	Month 8	6-item assessment of food security. The total score ranges from 0-6, where: 5-6 = very low food security; 2-4 = low food security; and 0-1 = high or marginal food security.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to Obtain Food From Food Pantry Per Visit	Month 8	Expressed in minutes.
Center for Nutrition & Health Impact's Household Nutrition Security Survey Module: Four-Item Short Form Score	Month 8	4-item assessment of nutrition security. The four items within the measure are scored from 0 (if the participant selects "Always") to 4 (if the participant selects "Never"). The total score is the average of the four item scores and ranges from 0-4; higher scores indicate greater nutrition security, and scores of 2 or below indicate "low" levels of nutrition security.
Composite Weekly Fruit & Vegetable Intake Score	Month 8	The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System's 2017 six-item fruit and vegetable screener, where values correspond to the number of times a participant consumed fruits and vegetables per week as a composite score. The total score ranges from 0 to infinity.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

NYU Langone Health; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States