Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Intervention

Summary

Mississippi is a place deeply rooted in cultural values, yet also a place where generations of communities have experienced persistent health challenges intertwined with poverty. This project focuses on Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower, contiguous counties in the Delta that are designated as health disparity populations. Over 65% of the 100,000 residents are Black/African American and \~30% live at or below the poverty level. Obesity rates are high and the rate of diabetes is almost double the national average. Tufts University received a grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop, test, and evaluate a Food is Medicine program in Mississippi. The Delta GREENS Food is Medicine (FIM) Project, is a collaborative project in Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower counties in Mississippi. The intervention involves regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes as well as nutrition education materials to the intervention group. The control group will receive produce boxes later, after they complete study activities. The project's primary goal is to improve health outcomes by creating a FIM intervention. The Delta GREENS FIM Project aims to become a model for promoting nutrition security and management of chronic conditions in varied communities nationwide.

Conditions

• Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
• Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• Obesity
• Nutrition Security

Interventions

OTHER

Food is Medicine

Regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes and nutrition education materials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

  collaborator NIH

• Tougaloo College, Mississippi

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Delta Health Center, Mississippi

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Reuben V. Anderson Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Tufts University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Christina D Economos, PhD · Tufts University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

21 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-05

Primary Completion

2027-05-31

Completion

2027-05-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations