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Evaluating Covered California's Grocery Support Program

NCT07215897 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 6975

Last updated 2025-10-15

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Summary

This is a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Covered California's Grocery Support Program. This pragmatic RCT will test the efficacy of providing a monthly food card benefit for adults with food insecurity, a chronic condition, and incomes below 250% of the federal poverty level (FPL) compared with a group who receives a lump sum payment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Grocery Support Monthly Program

$80 monthly (adjusted by household size), re-loadable cash card for use at food retailers to purchase fresh and packaged foods, baby food and formula, and/or non-alcoholic drinks

OTHER

Grocery Support One-Time Payment

No intervention is provided during the 12-month evaluation period. A $960 one-time (adjusted by household size) cash card for use at food retailers provided after the 12 month evaluation period to purchase fresh and packaged foods, baby food and formula, and/or non-alcoholic drinks

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Laura M Gottlieb, MD, MPH · University of California, San Francisco

  • Caroline Fichtenberg, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

  • Danielle Hessler Jones, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-01
Primary Completion
2026-04-30
Completion
2026-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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