NCT03567252

Tanglewood to Table: A Walking Farmer's Market Group and Control

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 23 July 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Walking Group in Dietary Habits in 157 participants. Completed in 21 May 2019.

Timeline

15 May 2018

Primary endpoint
21 May 2019

21 May 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Dawn Brewer
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	157
Start date	15 May 2018
Primary completion	21 May 2019
Estimated completion	21 May 2019
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Walking Group

Conditions studied

• Dietary Habits — all drugs for Dietary Habits →

Sponsor

Dawn Brewer

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Dietary Habits. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Fruit Intake Primary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey indicating the total servings of fruit consumed (possible answers range from 1 serving in 3 months to 3 servings per day). Survey will be measured at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months. Data will be presented as average servings of fruit per group over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.5	± 2.9
Non-Walking Group	2.9	± 3.8

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.3	± 1.7
Non-Walking Group	1.9	± 1.6

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.0	± 4.2
Non-Walking Group	1.6	± 1.1

Vegetable Intake Primary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey indicating the total servings of vegetables consumed (possible answers range from 1 serving in 3 months to 3 servings per day). Survey will be measured at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months. Data will be presented as average servings of vegetables per group over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	5.3	± 5.1
Non-Walking Group	2.6	± 2.0

4 months (mid point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	5.8	± 4.4
Non-Walking Group	3.2	± 2.1

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	6.2	± 7.9
Non-Walking Group	2.6	± 1.2

Change in Understanding of Plant-based Nutrients Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked a question demonstrating their understanding of the importance of ingesting plant-based nutrients at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are yes, no, or not sure. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that understood the importance of plant-based nutrients over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	51.1
Non-Walking Group	6.7

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	60.9
Non-Walking Group	15.4

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	88.9
Non-Walking Group	36.4

Change in Believing in the Benefits of Plant-based Nutrients Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked a question demonstrating their appreciation of plant-based nutrients at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are yes, no, or not sure. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that understood the importance of plant-based nutrients over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	80.6
Non-Walking Group	20.0

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	73.7
Non-Walking Group	18.2

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	90.2
Non-Walking Group	62.5

Change in Believing in the Preventative Effects of Plant-based Nutrients Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked a question demonstrating their beliefs of plant-based nutrients at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are yes, no, or not sure. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that understood the importance of plant-based nutrients over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	73.3
Non-Walking Group	22.2

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	39.5
Non-Walking Group	81.8

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	9.8
Non-Walking Group	62.5

Change in Believing in the Role of a Healthy Diet in Protecting Health From Pollutants Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked a question demonstrating their beliefs that a healthy diet might protect health from environmental pollutants at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are yes, no, or not sure. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that understood the importance of a healthy diet over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	89.6
Non-Walking Group	57.9

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	89.6
Non-Walking Group	71.4

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	97.9
Non-Walking Group	90.9

Change in Knowledge of Which Foods Contain Phytonutrients Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked a question about which foods contain phytonutrients at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are meat, dairy, plant foods, all foods, or don't know. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that correctly identified plant foods over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	56.3
Non-Walking Group	22.2

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	59.6
Non-Walking Group	21.4

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	77.1
Non-Walking Group	45.5

Change in Knowledge of Environmental Pollutants Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will be asked to identify environmental pollutants from a list at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months into the study. Possible answers are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, nitrites, all of those, none of those, or don't know. Data will be presented as the percent of participants in each group that correctly identified all of those over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	58.3
Non-Walking Group	57.9

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	58.3
Non-Walking Group	57.1

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	58.3
Non-Walking Group	27.3

Change in Days of Vigorous Exercise in the Last Week Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months where they will be asked a number of days of the last 7 days that they participating in vigorous activity including the following: heavy lifting, digging, aerobics, or fast bicycling or other. Data will be presented as the average number of days of vigorous activity compared between groups over time

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.3	± 2.1
Non-Walking Group	4.2	± 1.5

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.7	± 1.9
Non-Walking Group	4.3	± 1.7

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.3	± 1.7
Non-Walking Group	3.0	± 2.1

Change in Days of Moderate Exercise in the Last Week Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months where they will be asked a number of days of the last 7 days that they participating in moderate activity including the following: light lifting, bicycling or other. Data will be presented as the average number of days of moderate activity compared between groups over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.7	± 2.2
Non-Walking Group	3.7	± 2.1

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.7	± 2.4
Non-Walking Group	4.3	± 1.3

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.4	± 1.7
Non-Walking Group	2.9	± 2.0

Change in Time Spent in Vigorous Exercise in the Last Week Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months where they will be asked how much time in hours and minutes over the last 7 days that they participated in vigorous activity including the following: heavy lifting, digging, aerobics, or fast bicycling or other. Data will be presented as the average number of minutes or hours of vigorous activity compared between groups over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.4	± 1.5
Non-Walking Group	4.8	± 4.4

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.2	± 2.5
Non-Walking Group	4.0	± 5.2

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.9	± 3.4
Non-Walking Group	1.0	± 1.4

Change in Time Spent in Moderate Exercise in the Last Week Secondary · Baseline, 4 months and 8 months

Participants will complete a survey at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months where they will be asked how much time in hours and minutes over the last 7 days that they participated in moderate activity including the following: lifting, bicycling or other. Data will be presented as the average number of minutes or hours of moderate activity compared between groups over time.

baseline

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.6	± 1.5
Non-Walking Group	4.4	± 2.8

4 months (mid-point)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	3.0	± 2.9
Non-Walking Group	1.0	± 0

8 months (post)

Group	Value	95% CI
Walking Group	2.7	± 2.2
Non-Walking Group	1.2	± 1.0

Sponsor's own description

This program encourages community members to walk approximately 1 mile to the Whitesburg Farmers Market each Thursday or Saturday. The study aims to determine if walking to the market to receive vouchers improve health outcomes beyond controls who receive nutrition education.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.