Growing Resilience in Wind River Indian Reservation

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

338 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-11-30

Study Completion Date

2023-03-31

Brief Summary

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The Growing Resilience research leverages reservation-based assets of land, family, culture, and front-line tribal health organizations to develop and evaluate home food gardens as a family-based health promotion intervention to reduce disparities suffered by Native Americans in nearly every measure of health. Home gardening interventions show great promise for enabling families to improve their health, and this study aims to fulfill that promise with university and Wind River Indian Reservation partners. The investigators will develop an empowering, scalable, and sustainable family-based health promotion intervention with, by, and for Native American families and conduct the first RCT to assess the health impacts of home gardens.

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Detailed Description

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The intervention is comprised of designing and providing two years of support for home gardens. Families randomized to intervention will receive the following supports and services:

1. Blue Mountain Associates will host a gardening workshop to include crop planning, receipt of customized guides to the crops the family selects (these are currently in development and will be ready by 2015), and hands-on basic skills training (mid-April). CHRs and interested local healthcare providers will also participate in workshops to help them prepare for supporting gardeners.
2. BMA's garden manager and assistant(s) will visit each family to help the family install a garden and will provide the family with all needed supplies (late April to early May). Based on garden harvest measures collected in the Food Dignity project and the large gardens preferred by families in the pilot, the minimum garden size will be 80 sq. ft. with at least 30 sq. ft. devoted to crops other than corn and potatoes. The manager will design at least part of each garden in a way that allows the least physically able family members to participate in gardening.
3. BMA will host a Facebook support and networking group for gardeners, with ARI, BMA, and UW gardening experts providing advice as needed.
4. BMA's staff will visit each gardening family at least twice more during the growing season and will be available throughout the season for phone consultations and Facebook advice. For all years, the BMA garden manager will track actual intervention support provided to each family (e.g., timing and number of visits, training and supplies provided).

The University of Wyoming research team will collect health measures before and at the end of each gardening season with gardening and control families for two years, after which the control families also receive the gardening intervention. The investigators anticipate enrolling about 100 families into the study with 400 (half adults, half children) people participating in the health measures.

Conditions

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Obesity Overweight Diabetes

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

The primary data analyst will not know which set of results are from people in the gardening vs. the control condition.

Study Groups

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Gardening

Receiving two years of technical, labor and financial support in starting, growing, and harvesting from a home food garden.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Garden

Intervention Type OTHER

Two years of financial and technical home gardening support for new gardeners

Control

The control families receive a garden as a delayed intervention after two years.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Garden

Two years of financial and technical home gardening support for new gardeners

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* self-identify as having one or more household members who are enrolled in a tribe
* express interest in having a food garden
* express willingness to wait to create a food garden for two years if randomized to control
* live within the boundaries of Wind River Indian Reservation, including the City of Riverton.
* if the household has two or more adults, that at least two adults in the household express willingness to participate in the semi-annual data gathering for two years.