Delta GREENS Mississippi Food is Medicine Intervention

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Though the Mississippi Delta has a rich agricultural history and some of the nation's most fertile soil, residents have experienced the legacy of slavery and economic exploitation through food insecurity and poverty for generations. This project focuses on Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower, contiguous counties in the Delta that are designated as health disparity populations. Over 65% of the 100,000 residents are Black/African American and \ 30% live at or below the poverty level. Obesity rates are high and the rate of diabetes is almost double the national average. Tufts University received a grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop, test, and evaluate a Food is Medicine program in Mississippi. The Delta Growing a Resilient, Enriching, Equitable, Nourishing food System (GREENS) Food is Medicine (FIM) Project, is a collaborative project in Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower counties in Mississippi. The intervention involves regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes as well as nutrition education materials to the intervention group. The control group will receive produce boxes later, after they complete study activities. The project's primary goal is to improve health outcomes by creating a FIM intervention. The Delta GREENS FIM Project aims to become a model for promoting nutrition security and management of chronic conditions in varied communities nationwide.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 21
Healthy Volunteers: t
View:

• Patient at participating Delta Health Center (DHC) clinics

• BMI: ≥ 25

• Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c): \>5.7 to 8.5%, inclusive

Locations
United States
Massachusetts
Tufts University
RECRUITING
Boston
Contact Information
Primary
Daniel Schultz, MS, RDN, LD
daniel.schultz@tufts.edu
262-627-0155
Backup
Shanti Sharma, PhD
shanti.sharma@tufts.edu
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-06-05
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-05
Participants
Target number of participants: 300
Treatments
Experimental: Intervention
The intervention involves regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes as well as nutrition education materials to the intervention group.
No_intervention: Control
The control group will receive produce boxes later, after they complete study activities.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Tufts University
Collaborators: Tougaloo College, Mississippi, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Delta Health Center, Mississippi, Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice at Tougaloo

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