NCT06946355

Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families

Food-based Randomized Trial for Enhancing Support of Hospitalized Children and Their Families

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9,119 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an intervention to provide food support to families who are part of government or self-pay insurances will provide benefits. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Determine the effect of implementing an in-hospital food support intervention for low-income parents on reutilization and family-centered outcomes. * Among families with baseline food insecurity, determine the effectiveness of a post-discharge food support intervention and as-needed social work referral on reutilization and family-centered outcomes. Researchers will compare the in-hospital food support intervention and will be rolled out to sequential hospital units. In addition, the post-discharge food support intervention will be compared to standard discharge. Some participants will: * Receive in-hospital meal cards or standard care during hospitalization * Receive post-discharge food support intervention or standard discharge * Complete a 14-day post discharge follow-up survey

Conditions

• Food Insecurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	In-hospital food support intervention	The in-hospital food support intervention will provide two meals for up to two parents per day.
OTHER	Post-discharge food support intervention	The post-discharge intervention will provide families with grocery gift cards and frozen meals at the time of discharge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-27
• Primary completion: 2029-12-31
• Completion: 2029-12-31
• First posted: 2025-04-27
• Last updated: 2025-06-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States