Health, Environment and Action in Louisville (HEAL) Green Heart Louisville Project

University of Louisville (UOFL)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Metabolic Health; Cardiovascular Diseases

Treatments: Other: Greenness as a therapeutic intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03670524

15.1260

R01ES029846-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine how the environment and neighborhood characteristics affects the health of the area residents. The study will help determine how changing neighborhood characteristics, such as green space, affect heart health, risk factors for other diseases, sense of well- being or neighborhood cohesion.

Enrollment: 835 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 30-70 years of age.
• Live within the targeted study location

Exclusion criteria

• Unwilling or unable to provide consent.
• HIV/AIDS, active treatment for cancer, active bleeding including wounds.
• Body weight less than 100 pounds or BMI>40.
• Prisoners and other vulnerable populations.
• Anyone that PI thinks is unsafe to participate in study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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835 participants in 2 patient groups

Targeted neighborhoods for Greenness

Experimental group

Description:

Using greenness as a therapeutic intervention, we will plant shrubs, grasses, young and mature trees (40-50 ft in height), so that we can evaluate changes in health and pollution, 2 years after planting.

Treatment:

Other: Greenness as a therapeutic intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention