Clinical trials: Food Insecurity
Diet, Healthy, Blood Pressure
Indigenous Supported Agriculture "Go Healthy"
Native Americans (NAs) have limited access to healthy food and a high prevalence of diet-related diseases. This study will implement an agricultural and health education program in which NA residents of Osage Nation will receive…
- Conditions
- Diet, Healthy, Blood Pressure, Overweight or Obesity, Food Insecurity
- Trial name
- ISA (NCT05773833)
- Testing
- "Go Healthy" program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 580 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Food Insecurity, Health Behavior
Food Access, Value, and Optimization of Resources
The main goal of the study is to examine the potential benefits of an educational workshop designed to help and support caregivers of children in families that struggle to get enough healthy food.
- Conditions
- Food Insecurity, Health Behavior, Nutrition, Social Determinants of Health
- Trial name
- FAVORes (NCT07149350)
- Testing
- FAVORes Workshop
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control
Assessing the Effects of Cool Roofs on Indoor Environments and Health in Colima, Mexico
Ambient air temperatures in Mexico have broken record highs in 2024. Solutions are needed to build heat resilience in communities and adapt to increasing heat from climate change.
- Conditions
- Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control, Depression, Heat-related Symptoms
- Trial name
- REFLECT (NCT06834893)
- Testing
- Cool roof
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aditi Bunker
Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control
Assessing the Effects of Cool Roofs on Indoor Environments and Health in Niue
Ambient air temperatures in the Pacific have broken record highs in 2024. Solutions are needed to build heat resilience in communities and adapt to increasing heat from climate change.
- Conditions
- Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control, Depression, Heat-related Symptoms
- Trial name
- REFLECT (NCT06570993)
- Testing
- Cool roof
- Where
- Niue
- Volunteers
- 288 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aditi Bunker
Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control
Assessing the Effects of Cool Roofs on Indoor Environments and Health
Ambient air temperatures in Asian, Latin American, African, and Pacific climate hotspots have broken record highs in 2024, driven by man-made climate change. Solutions are needed to reduce heat exposure in communities.
- Conditions
- Resting Heart Rate, Blood Glucose Control, Depression, Heat-related Symptoms
- Trial name
- REFLECT (NCT06579950)
- Testing
- Cool roof
- Where
- 5 sites in Burkina Faso, Fiji and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 3,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aditi Bunker
Health Literacy, Nutrition, Healthy
Addressing Food Insecurity: Plant-Based Food Prescription Program
Reduce food insecurity by improving plant-based health food consumption, access, health and nutrition literacy and the health of the food-insecure families we serve.
- Conditions
- Health Literacy, Nutrition, Healthy, Nutrition Poor, Food Insecurity
- Trial name
- NCT06614920
- Testing
- Plant-Based Food Provision (with or without food prescription), Plant-Based Nutrition Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Food Insecurity, Dietary Quality
Behavioral Economics to Implement Nutrition Ranking in Food Pantries
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether using behavioral economic strategies to promote healthy food choices on a food bank's online ordering platform increases the use of the traffic light nutrition…
- Conditions
- Food Insecurity, Dietary Quality, Behavioral Economics, Implementation Science
- Trial name
- NCT05854212
- Testing
- Behavioral economics-enhanced user interface
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 364 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Food Insecurity
Comparison of Produce Prescription Benefit Dosage
The goal of this study is to determine the relationship between produce prescription program 'dose' on benefit redemption, food insecurity, and fruit and vegetable consumption.
- Trial name
- NCT05978843
- Testing
- Monetary benefit to purchase fruits and vegetables
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 242 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Food Insecurity, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Delivering Health: Addressing Diabetes and Food Insecurity
The goal of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to use home-delivery of Type 2 diabetes (T2D)-appropriate food boxes with plain language adapted education materials to improve…
- Trial name
- NCT04831216
- Testing
- Type 2 Diabetes Appropriate Food Boxes + Diabetes Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Pediatric Obesity, Food Insecurity
Nutrition and Obesity in Under-Represented Populations: Food Insecurity Research to Advance Science and Improve Health
Food insecurity is associated with obesity in children, and childhood obesity leads to long term health consequences. While existing research shows that food benefit programs reduce food insecurity, little is known about the…
- Conditions
- Pediatric Obesity, Food Insecurity, Nutrition, Healthy, Nutrition Poor
- Trial name
- NOURISH (NCT06116422)
- Testing
- Grocery intervention - unrestricted, Grocery intervention - restricted
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 228 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Obesity, Food Insecurity
FoodRx for Obesity Treatment
This study is a 3-group, parallel design, randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 105 adults with obesity and food insecurity that will compare BWL-Alone (including standard-of-care referral and connection with community food…
- Trial name
- NCT05635019
- Testing
- BWL+VOUCHER, BWL+HOME, Behavioral weight loss counseling (BWL)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 105 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Improving Healthy Food Access in Food Insecurity Populations in Normal and Emergency Situations
Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness
Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness.
- Trial name
- SAFPAS (NCT05880004)
- Testing
- Support Application for Food PAntrieS (SAFPAS) - A mobile app that helps food pantries recruit, train and schedule volunteers, offer choice safely, and provides multilevel communications
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 537 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Food Insecurity, Pregnancy
An Agricultural Livelihood Intervention for Pregnant Women
Scarcity of food is a leading cause of sickness and death in mothers and their newborns in sub-Saharan Africa. Use of locally acceptable agricultural interventions including provision of agricultural supplies, training and having…
- Conditions
- Food Insecurity, Pregnancy, Birth Outcomes, Livelihood Interventions
- Trial name
- NCT07043647
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 410 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Food Insecurity
Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health
Food insecurity (FI) disproportionately affects those who have been historically marginalized and significantly contributes to poor health outcomes.
- Trial name
- I-FRESH (NCT06661538)
- Testing
- Food Security Screening & Referral Program
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Food Insecurity
Southern California Nutrition Incentive Program
The specific aims of this proposal are to implement SCNIP in 6 Northgate Gonzalez Markets across San Diego, Orange and LA counties (2 in each county), and determine which level of financial incentive rebate (specifically…
- Trial name
- SCNIP (NCT02976389)
- Testing
- Financial Incentive: High, Financial Incentive: Middle, Financial Incentive: Low
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,780 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Obesity, Food Insecurity
Food Environment, Food Insecurity, and Health Behaviors in NH Hispanics
This telephone-based survey included adults of Hispanic/Latino background residing in New Hampshire (NH). Information on food security and access, food environment, and health status and behaviors was collected through validated…
- Trial name
- NCT05424367
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 139 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Hampshire
Food Insecurity, Overweight and Obesity
Fiber-rich Foods, Weight Status, and the Gut Microbiota in NH Hispanic Adults at Risk for Food Insecurity
This study will include a group of 60 Hispanic adults living in New Hampshire with or without overweight/obesity. The study aims to assess food access and intake of fiber-rich foods, characterize fecal microbiota composition, and…
- Trial name
- FIRST (NCT05488912)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Hampshire
Food Insecurity
Fruit and Vegetable Rx (FVRx) + Home Plate
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…
- Trial name
- NCT04986046
- Testing
- Home Plate Lite, Home Plate, Fruit and Vegetable prescription
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Food Insecurity, Obesity Prevention
Effects of an Urban-gardening Nutrition Intervention for Food Insecure College Students
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an urban gardening nutrition education program can have positive health effects on food insecure college students.
- Trial name
- UGNIFICS (NCT06822803)
- Testing
- Gardening Nutrition Education Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 107 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida International University
Obesity, Food Insecurity
TARGETing Healthy Weight Loss in the Context of Food Insecurity
This pilot and feasibility study will collect information from food insecure, as well as food secure, women with obesity to detail their desires and needs for healthy weight reduction.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Body Weight
- Trial name
- TARGET P&F I (NCT05601804)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center