NCT04207268

Growing Healthy Hearts: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial to Test Gardening as an Intervention to Improve Health

Growing Healthy Hearts: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial to Test Gardening as an Intervention to Improve Dietary Intake of Fruits and Vegetables and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of group-based nutrition advice plus gardening (intervention) versus group-based nutrition advice alone on dietary intake of fruits and vegetables, physical activity, and lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Detailed description

Study participants will be randomly assigned to attend group sessions related to gardening with nutrition advice or nutrition advice alone. The main goal of the intervention will be to encourage participants to increase their intake of fruits and vegetables.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gardening and Nutrition Advice	Participate in gardening activities, gardening instructions and nutrition advice
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition Advice	Participate in only nutrition advice

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-19
• Primary completion: 2023-10-31
• Completion: 2023-10-31
• First posted: 2019-12-20
• Last updated: 2022-06-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States