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Weekly Family Food Packages: Food is Medicine

NCT05640414 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2025-04-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The specific aims and objectives of this proposal are to:

1. Evaluate a food pantry's weekly food distribution impact on behavioral, social and health outcomes in families.
2. In a subset of families with a child aged 6-17 years, test a pilot intervention offering the following components, with a goal of improving family behavioral, social and health outcomes:

1. Weekly family food packages from the Revere Food Pantry
2. 6-Monthly group sessions that include information on healthy behaviors, chronic disease management and teaching families how to prepare simple recipes based on the food they receive that week from the food pantry.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Weekly Family Food Packages

Families receive weekly family food packages for 6 months

BEHAVIORAL

Family Health Group Sessions

Families with children aged 6-17 years attend 6 monthly group sessions with cooking demonstrations

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Academy of Pediatrics

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ardmore Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Vitamix Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-01
Primary Completion
2025-03-03
Completion
2025-03-03

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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