Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine - Acres Homes

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Elevated Body Mass Index; Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Culinary Medicine Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06096506

HSC-SPH-23-0810

1U54CA280804-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of an adapted virtual Culinary Medicine (CM) curriculum on dietary behaviors, nutrition knowledge, and cooking skills and behaviors on outcomes such as HbA1c levels, Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, HDL, LDL, and Triglycerides, as well as to determine the feasibility and reproducibility of virtual synchronous CM classes.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Receiving care at UT Physicians clinics
• diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and elevated body mass index (>=25)
• HbA1c labs and clinic-assessed weight completed within the last 3 months
• English speaking or Spanish speaking
• Can obtain groceries before each class (intervention group only)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients without the technological support needed to participate (e.g., reliable internet and device - cell phone, tablet or laptop)
• Patients with an uncontrolled impairment that interferes with ability to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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89 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinics Receiving the Culinary Medicine Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will take part in the Culinary Medicine Program and will be recruited at University of Texas (UT) Physician Clinics serving the Acres Homes neighborhood in Houston.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Culinary Medicine Program

Control Clinics

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will be recruited from UT Physicians clinics outside of the Acres Homes service area.