NCT05640414

Weekly Family Food Packages: Food is Medicine

Healthy Families Clinic and Teaching Kitchen Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 132 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The specific aims and objectives of this proposal are to: 1. Evaluate a food pantry's weekly food distribution impact on behavioral, social and health outcomes in families. 2. In a subset of families with a child aged 6-17 years, test a pilot intervention offering the following components, with a goal of improving family behavioral, social and health outcomes: 1. Weekly family food packages from the Revere Food Pantry 2. 6-Monthly group sessions that include information on healthy behaviors, chronic disease management and teaching families how to prepare simple recipes based on the food they receive that week from the food pantry.

Conditions

• Food Insecurity
• Overweight
• Obesity
• Cardiometabolic Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Weekly Family Food Packages	Families receive weekly family food packages for 6 months
BEHAVIORAL	Family Health Group Sessions	Families with children aged 6-17 years attend 6 monthly group sessions with cooking demonstrations

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2025-03-03
• Completion: 2025-03-03
• First posted: 2022-12-07
• Last updated: 2025-04-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States