Food for Health Equity: Evaluation of a Nutrition Assistance Program

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Nutrition Assistance Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05947357

64256

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to evaluate whether a nutrition assistance quality improvement program for patients with cancer and food insecurity receiving active treatment at Pacific Cancer Care will have reductions in food insecurity.

Full description

This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and patient satisfaction with a nutrition assistance quality improvement program in which a randomly selected 30 patients will receive a food voucher with $40.00 each month for 6 months for use in the produce section at local grocery stores in the county. The primary outcome is understanding whether this program is effective at reducing food insecurity among patients being treated for cancer and will provide key insights that may guide program expansion or improvement.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient Participants must be undergoing or starting treatment for cancer at the Pacific Cancer Care clinic who screen positive for food insecurity using at 2-item screener, speak English or Spanish, have capacity to consent (e.g. no dementia or other cognitive impairment), are Latinx or another racial and ethnic minority group OR low income, have public insurance, OR are insured by an agricultural company sponsored health insurance

Exclusion criteria

• Patients will be ineligible if they do not have a current cancer diagnosis, cannot communicate in English or Spanish, are deemed ineligible to consent, are under 18 years of age, are not Latinx or another racial/ethnic minority OR are not low income OR are not publicly insured, uninsured, or do not have health insurance from an agricultural company

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Nutrition Assistance Program

Experimental group

Description:

A total of 30 Latinx cancer patients on active cancer treatment who have screened positive for food insecurity will receive a $40.00 voucher for use each month for 6 months for nutrition assistance in the produce section of local grocery stores after enrollment in the program.

Treatment:

Other: Nutrition Assistance Program