Brighter Bites & University of Texas Physicians Produce Rx Extension: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Prospective Clinical Nutrition Study With Produce Prescriptions

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Other: Standard of care; Other: Produce prescription program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06390397

HSC-SPH-24-0129

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to clinically evaluate the effectiveness of an at-home delivery produce prescription in improving weight status and obesity-related health outcomes and to examine the impacts of the program on child dietary behavioral outcomes (child fruit and vegetable intake, junk food consumption, and eating at any type of restaurant), and parent feeding practices (preparing foods from scratch, use of nutrition facts labels to make purchasing decisions, and eating meals with their referent child).

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be a patient at University of Texas Physicians Greens Clinic or University of Texas Physicians Pediatric Primary Care in Houston, Texas
• BMI>85th percentile
• reside within a 10-mile radius of a Brighter Bites school
• Medicaid recipients or low-income uninsured
• parents must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to complete surveys

Exclusion criteria

• currently participating in Brighter Bites
• a family member/sibling currently participating in Brighter Bites
• child is currently attending a school that offers Brighter Bites

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Produce prescription program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Produce prescription program

Other: Standard of care

Standard of Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Standard of care