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Food for Thought: Food Insecurity Screening in the Emergency Department

NCT03656146 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1818

Last updated 2023-03-16

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Summary

This study compares food insecurity disclosure rates in face-to-face interviews versus electronic formats, and explores caregiver preferences regarding screening modality and location, in a large, urban pediatric emergency department. Half of the participants were screened for food insecurity verbally, face-to-face by a research assistant, and half of the participants were screened electronically by a tablet.

Conditions

  • Hunger
  • Child Nutrition Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

Food Insecurity Screening Tablet

The intervention is the type of screening modality used to identify food insecurity: verbal face-to-face, or tablet-based screening

OTHER

Food Insecurity Screening Verbal

The intervention is the type of screening modality used to identify food insecurity: verbal face-to-face, or tablet-based screening

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-15
Primary Completion
2017-11-28
Completion
2018-01-18

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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