NCT07218328

Food is Medicine in Survivorship: Examining the Feasibility and Impact of a Scalable Food Delivery and Culinary Medicine Program (FoodiiS) Among Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Their Families

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (estimated)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this research study is to learn if the FoodiiS-Kids intervention is useful to parents and guardians of pediatric cancer survivors.

Detailed description

Primary Objective: Assess the feasibility and acceptability of the FoodiiS intervention for parents of pediatric cancer survivors (recruitment, retention, satisfaction). Secondary Objective: Explore the preliminary efficacy of FoodiiS to improve diet quality and cooking behaviors among parents of pediatric cancer survivor.

Conditions

• Pediatric Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	FoodiiS plus Culinary Essentials Food Delivery	The FoodiiS intervention will include videos, recipes, and other online healthy eating content adapted from previously developed materials.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Culinary Essentials Food Delivery Only	To support participants in effectively learning the healthy cooking strategies and mitigate access issues, investigators will provide participating families two home food deliveries of non-perishable culinary ingredients that are related to HCI practices including whole grain versions of common products (brown rice, whole wheat flour), healthier cooking oils (olive and canola), and a core selection of herbs and spices, among other goods.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Waitlist control	The control group will receive no intervention until after T1. After the T1 data collection time point, the control group will receive all FoodiiS intervention materials.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-30
• Primary completion: 2027-07-01
• Completion: 2029-07-01
• First posted: 2025-10-20
• Last updated: 2025-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States