FOOD PRESCRIPTION APP

Kaiser Permanente

Status and phase: Enrolling; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Diet, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Customized meal plan and grocery delivery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05562180

3P50MD017344-02S1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will develop and test and app that will create meal plans to improve diet quality and support weight loss. This app will allow participants to customize their meal plans and substitute recipes for nutritionally equivalent options that they find more appealing, thus potentially increasing adherence.

Full description

We are specifically planning app to create meal plans that are affordable, meet the recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) and adhere to sustainability guidelines to reduce the food-related carbon footprint. The app will enable participants to customize their weekly meal plans. We hypothesize that having the ability to customize the weekly menus through a FoodRx app will improve outcomes, as the lack of customization appeared to be a barrier for some families to improve their diet quality and achieve weight loss goals. (eg, some families did not like tofu or oatmeal, and would have preferred a substitute). We will be able to test the impact of the Food Rx app by comparing participants who use it to our control group that does not currently have access to the standard menus/grocery delivery or FoodRx app.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Already enrolled in FoodRx study >18 years BMI>27 and wants to lose weight -

Exclusion criteria

Not enrolled in Food Rx

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

These participants will use the app to customize their weekly meal plan and grocery delivery

Treatment:

Behavioral: Customized meal plan and grocery delivery

comparison

No Intervention group

Description:

These participants will not receive a weekly meal plan and will not get grocery delivery