NCT06407284

Brighter Bites/Legacy Produce Rx Program

Brighter Bites & Legacy Community Health Produce Rx: Evaluating the Feasibility and Effectiveness of a School-based Clinical Nutrition Program With Produce Prescription

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the produce prescription program at improving weight status and obesity-related health outcomes of participants, to examine the impacts of the program on household food insecurity and nutrition security, to examine the impacts of the program on participating adolescents' dietary behavioral outcomes, their home nutrition environment and feeding practices and to examine the impacts of the program in reducing healthcare use and associated costs

Conditions

• Child Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Produce Prescription Group	Participants will receive 16 produce bags, each containing approximately 50 servings of F\&V. The produce bags will be assembled by Brighter Bites at school sites using donated produce and delivered to houses using DoorDash. F\&V bags will be distributed to families every 2 weeks for 16 distributions (over approximately 32 weeks). Participants will also receive nutrition education, including MyPlate.gov's Start Simple App for adolescents, and a Virtual Culinary Medicine Program for parents; these nutrition education programs are theory-driven, tailored to diverse populations, and proven to support behavior change.
OTHER	Control Group	Participants in this group will be selected from de-identified Electronic Health Record (EHR) provided by Legacy Community Health with a 1-to-1 match to the intervention group participant's demographic characteristics and Medicaid eligibility.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-15
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-08-31
• First posted: 2024-05-09
• Last updated: 2025-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States