Brighter Bites/Legacy Produce Rx Program

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Child Obesity

Treatments: Other: Control Group; Other: Produce Prescription Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06407284

HSC-SPH-23-0850

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the produce prescription program at improving weight status and obesity-related health outcomes of participants, to examine the impacts of the program on household food insecurity and nutrition security, to examine the impacts of the program on participating adolescents' dietary behavioral outcomes, their home nutrition environment and feeding practices and to examine the impacts of the program in reducing healthcare use and associated costs

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be a patient at one of the four Legacy Community Health School-based clinics in Galena Park, Texas
• BMI greater than or equal to 85th percentile
• reside within a 10-mile radius of Houston Food Bank
• Medicaid recipients or low-income uninsured
• parents must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to complete surveys
• patient and parents must confirm their willingness to complete the participant's well-child visit for the entire period of the study (approximately one year).

Exclusion criteria

• currently participating in Brighter Bites
• with a family member/sibling currently participating in Brighter Bites

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

Produce Prescription Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Produce Prescription Group

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Control Group