NCT06438003

Improving Healthy Living Opportunities: Laurel HARVEST

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 281 (actual)
• Sponsor: Makenzie Barr-Porter · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this pre-post intervention study is to understand how community-engaged approaches to policy, systems, and environmental approaches can work to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and food security status among an Appalachian Kentucky community. The main approaches taken will be to employ a Community Advisory Board to define our target population of need, and appropriate intervention strategies. The investigators aim to understand if nutrition-based programming and food system approaches for lower-income, single-parent households, and multi-generational households can improve health. Participants will engage in annual data collection to assess dietary quality and food security status.

Conditions

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Special Services	Community members will complete data collection at the extension office or community partner location. Extension cooking classes and helping to make raised bed gardens along with other area happenings will be offered to participants throughout the year with check-ins and reminders. Data will be collected from study participants (regardless of the intervention decided) , at two time points, to include survey, dietary recall, and carotenoid scanner.
OTHER	Services as Usual	Community members will receive extension services as usual with Data collection on participants at two time points to assess changes in rates of food insecurity, dietary quality, and overall health conditions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-27
• Primary completion: 2025-11-21
• Completion: 2025-11-21
• First posted: 2024-05-31
• Last updated: 2026-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States