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Trial Title:
Food for Health Equity: Evaluation of a Nutrition Assistance Program
NCT ID:
NCT05947357
Condition:
Cancer
Conditions: Keywords:
Food Insecurity
Food Assistance Quality Improvement Program
Latinx and minority patients
Study type:
Interventional
Study phase:
N/A
Overall status:
Recruiting
Study design:
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention model:
Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description:
Patients as part of a nutrition assistance program will randomly receive food vouchers
for $40.00 each month for use in the produce section of local grocery stores for 6
months.
Primary purpose:
Health Services Research
Masking:
Triple (Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Other
Intervention name:
Nutrition Assistance Program
Description:
Patients will receive in the intervention group a $40.00 per month voucher for 6 months
for use in the produce section of a local grocery store.
Arm group label:
Nutrition Assistance Program
Summary:
This study seeks to evaluate whether a nutrition assistance quality improvement program
for patients with cancer and food insecurity receiving active treatment at Pacific Cancer
Care will have reductions in food insecurity.
Detailed description:
This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and patient satisfaction with a nutrition
assistance quality improvement program in which a randomly selected 30 patients will
receive a food voucher with $40.00 each month for 6 months for use in the produce section
at local grocery stores in the county. The primary outcome is understanding whether this
program is effective at reducing food insecurity among patients being treated for cancer
and will provide key insights that may guide program expansion or improvement.
Criteria for eligibility:
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient Participants must be undergoing or starting treatment for cancer at the
Pacific Cancer Care clinic who screen positive for food insecurity using at 2-item
screener, speak English or Spanish, have capacity to consent (e.g. no dementia or
other cognitive impairment), are Latinx or another racial and ethnic minority group
OR low income, have public insurance, OR are insured by an agricultural company
sponsored health insurance
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients will be ineligible if they do not have a current cancer diagnosis, cannot
communicate in English or Spanish, are deemed ineligible to consent, are under 18
years of age, are not Latinx or another racial/ethnic minority OR are not low income
OR are not publicly insured, uninsured, or do not have health insurance from an
agricultural company
Gender:
All
Minimum age:
18 Years
Maximum age:
99 Years
Healthy volunteers:
No
Locations:
Facility:
Name:
Stanford University School of Medicine
Address:
City:
Stanford
Zip:
94305
Country:
United States
Status:
Recruiting
Contact:
Last name:
Manali I Patel, MD MPH MS
Phone:
650-723-4000
Email:
manalip@stanford.edu
Start date:
July 15, 2023
Completion date:
December 15, 2024
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
Stanford University
Agency class:
Other
Source:
Stanford University
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05947357
