YK Delta Food Box Study

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Food Insecurity

Treatments: Other: Food support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07220291

OT2OD035835 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand if monthly food support increases food security in food insecure households. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does monthly food support increase household food security?
• Does monthly food support reduce stress, increase dietary diversity, and improve self-reported wellness in recipients?

Researchers will compare households receiving monthly food support to households that do not receive study-related food support. Participants will complete questionnaires regarding food insecurity, stress, wellness, and dietary diversity at baseline and after 3 months.

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Live in a Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta community served by the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation
• Self-reported need for food support.

Exclusion criteria

• Existing food support through Neqkiuryaraq
• Under 18 years of age
• Planning to move outside of YK Delta within 4 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

Food support

Experimental group

Description:

Monthly food box shipped to rural Alaska Native households that include traditional proteins when available (e.g., caribou, salmon) and are pro-rated in value by household size.

Treatment:

Other: Food support

Wait list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Households allocated to the wait list arm will receive food support as described in the intervention arm after 3 months.