NCT05539222

Food Vouchers and Educational Intervention on Promoting Healthy Eating in Vulnerable Groups.

Completed NA Last updated 14 September 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Food vouchers and education in Economic Problems in 66 participants. Completed in 30 June 2022.

Timeline

14 October 2021

Primary endpoint
30 March 2022

30 June 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Universidad de Zaragoza
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	single group
Masking	double
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	66
Start date	14 October 2021
Primary completion	30 March 2022
Estimated completion	30 June 2022
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

• Food vouchers and education

Conditions studied

• Economic Problems — all drugs for Economic Problems →

Sponsor

Universidad de Zaragoza — full company profile →

Who can join

Adults 3 to 80, any sex, with Economic Problems. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Cost has been reported as the main barrier to healthy eating in vulnerable groups. We aimed to evaluate the effect of food vouchers with a nutrition education intervention on diet quality (using NOVA classification) and health. This pilot study has a randomized pre-and post-test experimental design. We included 66 vulnerable users from the Red Cross of Zaragoza (Spain). Intervention and control group individuals received 120 eu-ros/month during 3 months in food vouchers to be spent in supermarkets (60 eu-ros/month if under 12y) plus a 10-week nutrition education for the intervention group. Family food purchases were assessed using electronically recorded supermarket-obtained transactions. We found the percentage of healthy food was higher in the in-tervention group than in the control group. Once the nutrition education was over, dif-ferences between groups dissipated. Health parameters improved in the intervention group, particularly weight-status, lipid, and liver enzymes. Control participants gained weight, although lipid and liver enzymes improved. Blood pressure and HbA1c did not improve in either the intervention or the control group. In conclusion, providing unrestricted food vouchers to vulnerable groups to increase healthy food consumption and reduce the intake of ultra-processed food appears to be insufficient and should be accompanied by medium-long term education.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The Effect of Food Vouchers and an Educational Intervention on Promoting Healthy Eating in Vulnerable Families: A Pilot Study.
   Miguel-Berges ML, Jimeno-Martínez A, Larruy-García A, Moreno LA, et al · · 2022 · cited 13× · PMID 36501009 · DOI 10.3390/nu14234980