Weekly Family Food Packages: Food is Medicine

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Cardiometabolic Syndrome; Obesity; Food Insecurity

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Health Group Sessions; Other: Weekly Family Food Packages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05640414

2022P002892

Details and patient eligibility

About

The specific aims and objectives of this proposal are to:

1. Evaluate a food pantry's weekly food distribution impact on behavioral, social and health outcomes in families.

2. In a subset of families with a child aged 6-17 years, test a pilot intervention offering the following components, with a goal of improving family behavioral, social and health outcomes:

   1. Weekly family food packages from the Revere Food Pantry
   2. 6-Monthly group sessions that include information on healthy behaviors, chronic disease management and teaching families how to prepare simple recipes based on the food they receive that week from the food pantry.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Referral to the food pantry

Additional inclusion criteria for Group Sessions:

• Family has a child aged 6-17 years

Exclusion criteria

• Not able to speak English or Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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132 participants in 2 patient groups

Weekly Family Food Packages

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Weekly Family Food Packages

Family Health Group Sessions

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Weekly Family Food Packages

Behavioral: Family Health Group Sessions