NCT03251950: FRESH

Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health

Completed NA Last updated 19 March 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing healthy eating and gardening in BMI in 522 participants. Completed in 30 June 2018.

Timeline

22 August 2017

Primary endpoint
30 June 2018

30 June 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	522
Start date	22 August 2017
Primary completion	30 June 2018
Estimated completion	30 June 2018
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• healthy eating and gardening

Conditions studied

• BMI — all drugs for BMI →
• Blood Pressure — all drugs for Blood Pressure →

Sponsor

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

Who can join

3 and older, any sex, with BMI or Blood Pressure. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Food insecurity increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. American Indians (AIs) in Oklahoma are three times as likely as Whites to be food-insecure (21% vs. 7%) and have burdens of obesity (42%), hypertension (38%), and diabetes (15%) that exceed those of the general US population. While individual-level obesity prevention efforts have been implemented with AIs, few environmental interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve fruit and vegetable intake have been conducted with tribal communities. Community gardening interventions have been shown to increase vegetable and fruit intake, reduce food insecurity, and lower BMI among children and adults; however, to date, no such interventions have been evaluated with AI families. The proposed study, entitled "Food Equity Resource and Sustainability for Health (FRESH)," will assess the impact of a tribally-initiated community gardening intervention on vegetable and fruit intake, food insecurity, BMI, and blood pressure in families living on the Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma.

Publications & conference data

5 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Impact of a Farm-to-School Nutrition and Gardening Intervention for Native American Families from the FRESH Study: A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial.
   Taniguchi T, Haslam A, Sun W, Sisk M, et al · · 2022 · cited 18× · PMID 35807781 · DOI 10.3390/nu14132601
2. The Impact of Responsive Feeding Practice Training on Teacher Feeding Behaviors in Tribal Early Care and Education: The Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health (FRESH) Study.
   Sleet K, Sisson SB, Dev DA, Love C, et al · · 2020 · cited 14× · PMID 32258996 · DOI 10.1093/cdn/nzz105
3. Impact of the 2017 Child and Adult Care Food Program Meal Pattern Requirement Change on Menu Quality in Tribal Early Care Environments: The Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health Study.
   Sisson SB, Sleet K, Rickman R, Love C, et al · · 2020 · cited 11× · PMID 32258995 · DOI 10.1093/cdn/nzz094
4. Development and Implementation of a Hybrid Online and In-Person Food Sovereignty and Nutrition Education Curriculum for Native American Parents: The FRESH Study.
   Haslam A, Love C, Taniguchi T, Williams MB, et al · · 2023 · cited 7× · PMID 34991400 · DOI 10.1177/10901981211067168
5. Changes in Meal and Menu Quality at Early Care and Education Programs after Training with Food Service Staff: the FRESH Study.
   Patel D, Sisson SB, Sleet K, Rickman R, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 37181935 · DOI 10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100040