Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine- Acres Homes

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Elevated Body Mass Index; Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual Culinary Medicine

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 to implement adapted virtual Culinary Medicine (CM) curriculum among target population, to assess if program participation improves participant dietary behaviors, nutrition knowledge, and cooking skills and behaviors above standard of care, to assess if program participation improves patient levels of HbA1c, Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, HDL, LDL and Triglycerides above standard of care and to determine the feasibility and reproducibility of virtual synchronous CM classes.

Enrollment: 88 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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88 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention clinics

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be recruited from those receiving care at University of Texas (UT) Physician Clinics serving the Acres Homes neighborhood in Houston

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Culinary Medicine

Control Clinics

No Intervention group

Description:

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