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Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health

Addressing Food Insecurity in the Health Care Setting to Promote Health Equity

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
5 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

Food insecurity (FI) disproportionately affects those who have been historically marginalized and significantly contributes to poor health outcomes. In children, FI is associated with lower psychosocial functioning and academic achievement. It also contributes to the development of adverse health outcomes such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). Improving the diet quality of children (e.g., decreasing fat intake, increasing fruits and vegetables (FV) and fiber intake) has been associated with lower fasting serum glucose, insulin, LDL cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, and reduced risk of CVD later in life. Increasing awareness and access to programs that promote food equity by providing affordable healthy produce is a promising way to improve health outcomes and empower patients and communities to achieve better health and well-being. The goal of this proposal is to refine and optimize implementation strategies that connect families to community-based food security nutrition support programs through health care systems or medical clinics. The investigators will develop a multi-disciplinary, cross-sector collaboration to optimize current processes and workflows that integrate food security nutrition support programs into the healthcare system. The investigators will also work to develop a closed-loop communication system between the healthcare and healthy food access systems to support greater patient autonomy and self-efficacy to obtain, prepare, and consume healthy foods.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * child attending Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes clinics, Cardiology clinic, MASLD clinic, general GI clinic at RCHSD * child age between 5-18 years old * parent or caregiver who indicates that they are experiencing food insecurity and receives Medicaid or SNAP benefits * family not moving out of the San Diego area within the time frame of the study Limited exclusion criteria will be applied in order to examine the impact of this program on a heterogenous group of people and increase generalizability. Of note, all genders and races/ethnicities will be allowed to participate.

Study sites (2)

CA