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Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health

NCT03251950 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 522

Last updated 2019-03-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Food insecurity increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. American Indians (AIs) in Oklahoma are three times as likely as Whites to be food-insecure (21% vs. 7%) and have burdens of obesity (42%), hypertension (38%), and diabetes (15%) that exceed those of the general US population. While individual-level obesity prevention efforts have been implemented with AIs, few environmental interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve fruit and vegetable intake have been conducted with tribal communities. Community gardening interventions have been shown to increase vegetable and fruit intake, reduce food insecurity, and lower BMI among children and adults; however, to date, no such interventions have been evaluated with AI families. The proposed study, entitled "Food Equity Resource and Sustainability for Health (FRESH)," will assess the impact of a tribally-initiated community gardening intervention on vegetable and fruit intake, food insecurity, BMI, and blood pressure in families living on the Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma.

Conditions

  • BMI
  • Blood Pressure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

healthy eating and gardening

15 week healthy eating and gardening intervention for children aged 3-5 years; 15 week online parenting intervention to promote healthy eating; Menu change in early childhood center to promote healthy eating

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Valarie BB Jernigan, DrPH · Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-22
Primary Completion
2018-06-30
Completion
2018-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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