Growing Resilience in Wind River Indian Reservation

Summary

The Growing Resilience research leverages reservation-based assets of land, family, culture, and front-line tribal health organizations to develop and evaluate home food gardens as a family-based health promotion intervention to reduce disparities suffered by Native Americans in nearly every measure of health. Home gardening interventions show great promise for enabling families to improve their health, and this study aims to fulfill that promise with university and Wind River Indian Reservation partners. The investigators will develop an empowering, scalable, and sustainable family-based health promotion intervention with, by, and for Native American families and conduct the first RCT to assess the health impacts of home gardens.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Overweight
• Diabetes

Interventions

OTHER

Garden

Two years of financial and technical home gardening support for new gardeners

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Blue Mountain Associates, Incorporated

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

  collaborator NIH

• Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Action Resources International

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

  collaborator NIH

• Wind River Development Fund (WRDF)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Wyoming

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Christine M Porter, PhD · University of Wyoming

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

5 Years

Max Age

80 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-11-30

Primary Completion

2021-08-31

Completion

2023-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations