NutritiOUs fRuIts and veggieS to Improve Health: A Culinary Medicine Intervention (NOURISH)

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Cancer, Nos

Treatments: Other: NOURISH

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06926972

MCC-23506

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study includes a 12-week culinary medicine intervention integrated within the existing YMCA Suncoast Survivorship and Wellness Program Powered by Moffitt. Members of the John Geigle YMCA will be assigned to the NOURISH intervention, which includes biweekly provision of fruit and vegetable bundles, recipe cards, and nutritional education handouts plus 30-minute culinary medicine demonstrations with skill-building training (six total demonstrations focused on fruit and vegetable recipes).

Enrollment: 11 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with cancer.
• Able to speak and read English.
• Without documented or observable psychiatric or neurologic diagnoses that could interfere with participation (e.g., dementia, active psychosis).
• Able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting all of the above inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11 participants in 1 patient group

NOURISH: NutritiOUs fRuIts and veggieS to improve Health

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention Phase: In the intervention phase, members of the John Geigle YMCA will be assigned to the NOURISH intervention, which includes biweekly provision of f/v, recipe cards, and nutritional education handouts plus 30-minute culinary medicine demonstrations with skill-building training (six total demonstrations focused on f/v recipes). Members of the Hernando County YMCA will be assigned to the control condition and participants will receive recipe cards and nutritional education handouts but will not receive f/v or cooking demonstrations. Maintenance Phase: In the maintenance phase, we will better understand adherence to dietary guidelines once f/v are no longer provided and maintenance of culinary skills.

Treatment:

Other: NOURISH