NCT05947357

Food for Health Equity: Evaluation of a Nutrition Assistance Program

Addressing LatinX Cancer Care Equity: Food for Health Equity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study seeks to evaluate whether a nutrition assistance quality improvement program for patients with cancer and food insecurity receiving active treatment at Pacific Cancer Care will have reductions in food insecurity.

Detailed description

This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and patient satisfaction with a nutrition assistance quality improvement program in which a randomly selected 30 patients will receive a food voucher with $40.00 each month for 6 months for use in the produce section at local grocery stores in the county. The primary outcome is understanding whether this program is effective at reducing food insecurity among patients being treated for cancer and will provide key insights that may guide program expansion or improvement.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nutrition Assistance Program	Patients will receive in the intervention group a $40.00 per month voucher for 6 months for use in the produce section of a local grocery store.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-15
• Primary completion: 2024-05-15
• Completion: 2025-02-15
• First posted: 2023-07-17
• Last updated: 2025-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States