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Impact of BC Farmers' Market Nutrition Coupon Program on Diet Quality and Psychosocial Well-being of Low-income Adults

NCT03952338 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 285

Last updated 2024-12-16

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Summary

The British Columbia (BC) Farmers' Market Nutrition Coupon Program (FMNCP) provides low-income households with $21/week in coupons to purchase healthy foods at farmers' markets and supportive nutrition skill-building activities. This randomized controlled trial will assess the impact of the BC FMNCP on the overall diet quality (primary outcome), diet quality subscores, mental well-being, sense of community, experiences of food insecurity, risk of malnutrition (secondary outcomes) and subjective social status (exploratory outcome) of low-income adults immediately post-intervention and 16 weeks post-intervention.

Conditions

  • Diet, Healthy
  • Health Risk Behaviors

Interventions

OTHER

Food coupons

Participants will receive 16 coupon sheets (each sheet contains $21 in coupons) over 10-15 weeks (households with 5-8 individuals will receive 32 coupon sheets) to purchase fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat/poultry/fish, eggs, nuts, and cut herbs at participating BC farmers' markets.

OTHER

Nutrition skill-building

Participants will be invited to participate in nutrition skill-building activities throughout the intervention period. To be consistent with the real-world program, the frequency and types of skill-building activities offered will vary by community partner, and participation is not required.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • British Columbia Farmers' Market Nutrition Coupon Program

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Calgary

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dana Olstad, PhD, RD · University of Calgary

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-03
Primary Completion
2020-03-31
Completion
2020-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

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