Food for Health Equity: Evaluation of a Nutrition Assistance Program

NCT ID: NCT05947357

Last Updated: 2025-03-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-07-15
• Study Completion Date: 2025-02-15

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Nutrition Assistance Program

A total of 30 Latinx cancer patients on active cancer treatment who have screened positive for food insecurity will receive a $40.00 voucher for use each month for 6 months for nutrition assistance in the produce section of local grocery stores after enrollment in the program.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Nutrition Assistance Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

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.

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 99 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Manali Indravadan Patel

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

64256

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id