NCT05586269

Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goals of this study are to 1) pilot the feasibility of a novel meal kit delivery intervention in families and children with food insecurity and obesity and 2) evaluate the implementation of the pilot intervention.

Detailed description

Childhood obesity prevalence is rising in the U.S. and is known to track into adulthood, increasing the risks of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Households of children with obesity also face unmet social needs, such as food insecurity. Food insecurity is associated with poorer dietary quality and higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes in adults; however, data are inconsistent and less known regarding longitudinal health effects in children. Because food insecurity and childhood obesity tend to co-occur in Black, Hispanic, and lower-income households, there is an urgent need to examine and intervene in the social determinants associated with rising childhood obesity prevalence.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity
• Nutrition Disorders
• Overnutrition, Child
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Meal Kit Delivery	Dyads (caregiver + child) receive one meal kit delivery per week. One meal kit is designed to include two recipes and ingredients to prepare 10 servings (\~2 meals for a household 5 people). Meal kits come with printed picture-based recipes in English or Spanish and access to online cooking demonstrations.
BEHAVIORAL	Newsletter + Food Pantry Referral	Dyads (caregiver + child) receive a printed newsletter in English and Spanish that lists additional local food assistance resources. Dyads receive a referral to the clinic's associated food pantry.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-13
• Primary completion: 2023-11-02
• Completion: 2024-01-25
• First posted: 2022-10-19
• Last updated: 2025-05-22
• Results posted: 2025-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States