Giving Resources to lOw-income Children to Enhance RecoverY (GROCERY)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Discharged Pediatric Patients and Their Families

Treatments: Other: Grocery gift card

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06560229

2024-0466

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an intervention to provide food support to families who are part of a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization will provide benefits. The main question it aims to answer:

Does this monthly food support intervention reduce food insecurity and healthcare utilization in these patients.

Participants will complete surveys in the hospital, 14-days after discharge, and then quarterly for up to 18 months. Families randomized to the intervention group will receive monthly grocery gift cards for one year.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent of a pediatric patient admitted to one of two units at our hospital with HealthVine insurance

Exclusion criteria

• Previous study participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Monthly $100 grocery gift cards for 12 months

Treatment:

Other: Grocery gift card

Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Can receive in-hospital social work referral if determined appropriate by clinical care team (also true for intervention group)