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Harvest for Health in Older Cancer Survivors

NCT02985411 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 381

Last updated 2022-12-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Gardening interventions yield a multitude of measurable benefits that are evaluable within the context of a clinical trial. Harvest for Health forges new inroads in the delivery of holistic interventions to high risk populations, in this case, older cancer survivors. Since the intervention banks on an existing organization's infrastructure, it can easily be disseminated nationwide. The next step is to prove efficacy - an essential step in contributing to the science in this area, and one which is crucial for future dissemination.

Conditions

  • Cancer Survivor

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Immediate Gardening Intervention

Provided with supplies to plan/plant 3 vegetable gardens over the course of a year. Survivors will be paired with a master gardener from their local Cooperative Extension to help guide them and provide mentorship in vegetable gardening,

OTHER

Delayed Gardening Intervention

Subjects will be monitored for 1-year and will then receive the same vegetable gardening intervention as described under the Immediate Gardening Intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Auburn University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-01
Primary Completion
2022-05-15
Completion
2022-05-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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