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Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families

NCT06946355 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 9119

Last updated 2025-06-13

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an intervention to provide food support to families who are part of government or self-pay insurances will provide benefits. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Determine the effect of implementing an in-hospital food support intervention for low-income parents on reutilization and family-centered outcomes.
* Among families with baseline food insecurity, determine the effectiveness of a post-discharge food support intervention and as-needed social work referral on reutilization and family-centered outcomes.

Researchers will compare the in-hospital food support intervention and will be rolled out to sequential hospital units. In addition, the post-discharge food support intervention will be compared to standard discharge.

Some participants will:

* Receive in-hospital meal cards or standard care during hospitalization
* Receive post-discharge food support intervention or standard discharge
* Complete a 14-day post discharge follow-up survey

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity

Interventions

OTHER

In-hospital food support intervention

The in-hospital food support intervention will provide two meals for up to two parents per day.

OTHER

Post-discharge food support intervention

The post-discharge intervention will provide families with grocery gift cards and frozen meals at the time of discharge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-27
Primary Completion
2029-12-31
Completion
2029-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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