BerryCare: A Community Engagement Program

Dawn Brewer

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Treatments: Behavioral: Blackberry Consumption

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03477305

P42ES007380 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

43452

Details and patient eligibility

About

BerryCare teaches people about the health benefits of blackberries, how to harvest and maintain blackberry bushes and then assesses changes in knowledge and behaviors associated with blackberries and physical measurements.

Full description

BerryCare seeks to teach community members how to grow thornless, erect blackberry brambles and to healthily consume fresh blackberries using Plate It Up Kentucky Proud recipes. Horticulture, nutrition, and extension experts are working together to design a blackberry-growing program that engages citizens and their community in each step of the process, from planting to harvesting berries. The lessons will be delivered by experts in their respective field, with accompanying extension publications and supplemental materials provided for replication of the curriculum in other counties.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

• Physically incapacitated
• Mentally incapacitated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 1 patient group

BerryCare Participants

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be recruited to participate in a community gardening program where they will learn the benefits of both physical active gardening and consuming homegrown foods through blackberry consumption.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Blackberry Consumption