Diet, Nutrient Status, and Food Insecurity

NCT ID: NCT03412825

Last Updated: 2019-04-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2018-11-30

Brief Summary

Arkansas has one of the highest rates for food insecurity and 27.7% of children in the University of Arkansas area are food insecure. In addition, more than 14% of children ages 2-4 are obese and 20% of children ages 10-17 are obese. In Northwest Arkansas, the area surrounding the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (Washington County), the food insecurity rate for adults is 17.9% (an estimated 34,730 individuals) and the food insecurity rate for children under 17 years of age is 24.4% (12,150 individuals). In addition, the surrounding counties have similar food insecurity rates (This makes Northwest Arkansas an ideal location to conduct a pilot study focusing on egg supplementation, childhood obesity, and food insecurity (http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/our-research/map-the-meal-gap).

Conditions

Food Insecurity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Nutrition Supplementation

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Egg supplementation

Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Participants will required to consume 2 eggs per day, 5 days a week (a total of 10 eggs per week).

Control

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Egg supplementation

Participants will required to consume 2 eggs per day, 5 days a week (a total of 10 eggs per week).

Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Food insecurity assessed by use of SNAP benefits or qualifying using the US Food Security Scale).

Exclusion Criteria

• No dietary restrictions
• Fear of needles
• Metabolic disorders
• Picky eating
• Taking medication

• Minimum Eligible Age: 7 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jamie Baum

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Jamie I Baum, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Locations

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

70573

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id