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Food Insecurity, Social Determinants of Health

NCT06784310 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2026-03-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Food is Medicine for the whole will test an intervention which provides medically tailored meals, or grocery voucher cards, or a combination of these food and nutrition resources to a caregiver and children living in the household. The study will examine how providing healthy tailored food and nutrition services can improve health outcomes, such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity
  • Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)
  • Hypertension

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Medically Tailored Meals

Dare to Care will provide meals each week for 12 weeks tailored for comorbidities. Meals will be provided to both the adult and the child(ren). Meals have been developed with a Registered Dietitian and have been approved through Food Is Medicine Coalition (FMIC). Meals are delivered via Door Dash each week.

BEHAVIORAL

Grocery Prescription

Instacart Fresh Funds (for those that need delivery) or Kroger Grocery Rx cards will be issued to each participant per month to be spent on eligible healthy food items (lean protein, lean dairy, fruits, vegetables, eggs, and nuts). For each participating child in the household, they will receive additional funds/per child loaded on their grocery Rx card

BEHAVIORAL

Medically Tailored Meals and Grocery Prescription

will receive both tailored MTM meals per week for adult and child(ren) and the GP monthly grocery funds

BEHAVIORAL

Nutritional Counseling

30 minutes per week of nutrition counseling and assistance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Alison Gustafson

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RD · University of Kentucky

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-01
Primary Completion
2026-03-05
Completion
2026-03-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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