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Supermarket Science: Multipronged Approaches to Increasing Fresh, Frozen and Canned Fruit and Vegetable Purchases

NCT02975232 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 605

Last updated 2021-05-06

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Summary

Through research, education and extension, this project will promote fruit and vegetable (F\&V) purchases and consumption by families in under-resourced communities, thus reducing health disparities, improving human nutrition, and preventing unhealthy weight gain among children. Specifically, this project aims to evaluate the success of promoting F\&V purchases among low- income and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-eligible families and children living in a rural Maine community through a double value coupon, supermarket- based incentive program combined with Cooking Matters at the Store education. Education and extension efforts based on the study findings will contribute to meeting USDA Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area Goals of generating new knowledge; developing, assessing and expanding effective interventions; and increasing the number of skilled and informed professionals and consumers to address the complex problem of childhood obesity. The research team will partner with a large national retail grocery chain (Hannaford Brothers), Cooking Matters, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, eXtension Communities of Practice, Maine SNAP-Ed, and The Food Trust to accomplish the project objectives.

Conditions

  • Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

F&V economic incentive

50% off eligible fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables (up to $10/day)

BEHAVIORAL

Cooking Matters Store Tour

Participants will be asked to attend one Coking Matters store tour during January or February 2017

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

    collaborator OTHER

  • Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of New England

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michele Polacsek, PhD MHS · University of New England

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2018-09-30
Completion
2021-03-31

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