Diet, Nutrient Status, and Food Insecurity

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Food Insecurity

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Egg supplementation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03412825

70573

Details and patient eligibility

About

Arkansas has one of the highest rates for food insecurity and 27.7% of children in the University of Arkansas area are food insecure. In addition, more than 14% of children ages 2-4 are obese and 20% of children ages 10-17 are obese. In Northwest Arkansas, the area surrounding the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (Washington County), the food insecurity rate for adults is 17.9% (an estimated 34,730 individuals) and the food insecurity rate for children under 17 years of age is 24.4% (12,150 individuals). In addition, the surrounding counties have similar food insecurity rates (This makes Northwest Arkansas an ideal location to conduct a pilot study focusing on egg supplementation, childhood obesity, and food insecurity (http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/our-research/map-the-meal-gap).

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Food insecurity assessed by use of SNAP benefits or qualifying using the US Food Security Scale).

Exclusion criteria

• No dietary restrictions
• Fear of needles
• Metabolic disorders
• Picky eating
• Taking medication

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Nutrition Supplementation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Egg supplementation

Control

No Intervention group