Enhancing Food as Medicine Interventions for Food Insecure Postpartum Women in Central Texas

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Food Insecurity in Post Partum Women

Treatments: Other: home delivered food boxes; Other: FBM-Virtual; Other: FBM-In person

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06428578

HSC-SPH-23-0795

24FIM1264463 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the short-term and long term impacts of Food is the Best Medicine (FBM)-Virtual on diet quality, food security status, breastfeeding rates, mental health status, rates of home cooking, and rationing coping strategies relative to FBM-In Person among food insecure, postpartum women and to compare implementation outcomes across the FBM-Virtual and FBM-In Person using process data collected from the participants, Community Health Worker (CHW)s, and partner organizations.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• food insecure
• to communicate in English or Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• not living within the food produce zip code delivery radius
• having any dietary allergies.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 3 patient groups

FBM-In person

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: home delivered food boxes

Other: FBM-In person

FBM-Virtual

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: home delivered food boxes

Other: FBM-Virtual

home delivered food

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: home delivered food boxes