Examining the Feasibility and Impact of a Clinic-based Food Farmacy and Digital Culinary Medicine Program Among Cancer Survivors Treated in a Safety Net Hospital

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Digital culinary medicine intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06760754

NCI-2024-10265 (Other Identifier)

2024-1732

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to develop and test the feasibility of a theory-driven digital culinary medicine program among food insecure cancer survivors referred from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Oncology Clinic at LBJ to the LBJ Food Farmacy program.

Full description

Primary Objective:

Determine the feasibility of study recruitment goal, intervention adherence rate, attrition rate, data completion rate, and program satisfaction rate.

Secondary Objective:

Assess the preliminary efficacy of the digital culinary medicine intervention to improve diet quality, food security, quality of life, and downstream biological indicators of cardiometabolic health from baseline to post-intervention, as well as from baseline to 6 month follow up, among food insecure cancer survivors.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer survivors treated at the MD Anderson Oncology Program at LBJ Hospital over 18 years of age.
• Screen positive for food insecurity using the 2 question clinic-screener (Hunger Vital Signs)
• Receive referral to the LBJ Food Farmacy.
• Are within the first 5 years off of acute cancer treatment.
• Self-report having internet access.
• Self-report as being able to speak and read English or Spanish.
• Willing to complete study assessments.

Exclusion criteria

• Unwilling or unable to complete study assessments
• Anyone under 18 years of age
• Self-report to not speak or read English or Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

80 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care Waitlist Control

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be assessed for study eligibility and randomized to study

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Digital culinary medicine intervention

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be assessed for study eligibility and randomized to study

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Digital culinary medicine intervention