Food Is Medicine: Makin' Healthy Groceries

Summary

This is a minimal risk study focusing on food purchasing and consumption in 100 subjects in the greater New Orleans area. There is evidence showing that individually-targeted vouchers effectively increase category-level food purchases in both less healthful and more healthful categories. This pilot study will investigate whether a voucher program using Instacart or a local, brick-and-mortar supermarket in New Orleans, LA lead to changes in food purchasing patterns, food consumption, food insecurity, and access to healthy food options for the participants, who are at risk of cardiovascular disease and/or cardiac complications. The study will also measure concordance between food purchasing and actual consumption.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Grocery Vouchers

Participants will be given vouchers to buy groceries each month for five months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• American Heart Association

  collaborator OTHER

• Rouses Market

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Instacart

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Duke Clinical Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• University Medical Center New Orleans - LCMC Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Louisiana Public Health Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Duke University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS · Duke Clinical Research Institute

• Thomas W Carton, PhD, MS · Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)

• Bridget Simon-Friedt · Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

50 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-03-12

Primary Completion

2024-10-20

Completion

2024-10-23

Countries

• United States

Study Locations