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Effects of an Urban-gardening Nutrition Intervention for Food Insecure College Students

NCT06822803 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 107

Last updated 2025-02-12

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an urban gardening nutrition education program can have positive health effects on food insecure college students. The main question it aims to answer is to determine whether an 8-week urban-gardening nutrition intervention can improve fruit and vegetable intake, nutrition knowledge, Body Mass Index (BMI) and body fat percentage in college students with food insecurity.

Participants will:

Fill out a questionnaire regarding demographics, food insecurity, fruit and vegetable intake, nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy and health beliefs.

Allow researchers to measure height, weight and body fat percentage Participate in a 1-hour education cooking or gardening session once a week for 8 weeks Receive text message reminders for meeting dates

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity
  • Obesity Prevention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gardening Nutrition Education Program

This intervention was a 6-week Social Cognitive Theory based, urban gardening, cooking and nutrition education program designed to change health behavior mediators, fruit and vegetable intake, stress, and life satisfaction in food insecure college students.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Florida International University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-05
Primary Completion
2020-08-05
Completion
2020-08-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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