Food for Health Equity: Evaluation of a Nutrition Assistance Program

Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Addressing LatinX Cancer Care Equity: Food for Health Equity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05947357
• Other study ID #: 64256
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 15, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: Manali A Patel
• Phone: 6504859462
• Email: manalip[@]stanford.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study seeks to evaluate whether a nutrition assistance quality improvement program for patients with cancer and food insecurity receiving active treatment at Pacific Cancer Care will have reductions in food insecurity.

Description:

This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and patient satisfaction with a nutrition assistance quality improvement program in which a randomly selected 30 patients will receive a food voucher with $40.00 each month for 6 months for use in the produce section at local grocery stores in the county. The primary outcome is understanding whether this program is effective at reducing food insecurity among patients being treated for cancer and will provide key insights that may guide program expansion or improvement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 15, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient Participants must be undergoing or starting treatment for cancer at the Pacific Cancer Care clinic who screen positive for food insecurity using at 2-item screener, speak English or Spanish, have capacity to consent (e.g. no dementia or other cognitive impairment), are Latinx or another racial and ethnic minority group OR low income, have public insurance, OR are insured by an agricultural company sponsored health insurance

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients will be ineligible if they do not have a current cancer diagnosis, cannot communicate in English or Spanish, are deemed ineligible to consent, are under 18 years of age, are not Latinx or another racial/ethnic minority OR are not low income OR are not publicly insured, uninsured, or do not have health insurance from an agricultural company

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer

Intervention

Other:
• Nutrition Assistance Program
Patients will receive in the intervention group a $40.00 per month voucher for 6 months for use in the produce section of a local grocery store.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Food Insecurity	A validated six-item short form of the Household Food Security Scale will be administered to participants at time of enrollment and again at 6-months post-enrollment. Responses to questions "often" and "sometimes" versus "never" which are considered affirmative responses. Two or more affirmative responses indicate food insecurity, five or more affirmative responses indicates hunger.	Baseline to 6 months