Brighter Bites & UT Physicians Produce Rx Program

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Other: Brighter Bites app; Other: Arm 2; Other: Arm 3; Other: Arm 1

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05556070

HSC-SPH-22-0629

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to clinically evaluate the effectiveness of an at-home produce delivery prescription or grocery store vouchers prescription at improving weight status and obesity-related health outcomes of participants across the two clinics as compared to a control group 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 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 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
• with 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 3 patient groups

Arm 1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Arm 1

Other: Brighter Bites app

Arm 2

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Arm 2

Other: Brighter Bites app

Arm 3

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Arm 3