Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants

Part of paid clinical trials in New York, New York.

Sponsor
NYU Langone Health
Study ID
NCT06315140
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Environmental Exposure

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - 80 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Nutrition — OTHER
    The intervention will build on the 11-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity. Working with the Ramapough-leased Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal farm (growing produce/crops on clean soil) will provide the tribe with nutrition-rich foods and recipes for nutritious cooking. The interventions aims to return healthy soil on the farm allowing for healthy plant production.

Study Details

The purpose of this study is to build on our equitable, eight-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity and nutritional deficiency, prevent disease and promote health. Furthermore, assessing the extent of environmental contamination, individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes as outlined in the following: * Collect in-person/online survey information on demographics, health and food intake, nutrition, food security, and psychosocial stressors, and perform core anthropometric measurements (i.e., height, weight, body mass index, body circumference and blood pressure) at enrollment on Tribal members to inform health promotion strategies and community actions. * Determine individual-level contaminant burdens and micronutrient concentrations (e.g., iron, calcium, folate, vitamins) in urine and blood from surveyed (sub-aim 1a) Ramapough Turtle Clan volunteers. * Test soil, plants and surface water where Turtle Clan residents live, recreate and attend church in Ringwood, NJ using a community-based, citizen scientist approach.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 16, 2023
Status verified
Jan 2026
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2027
Completion
Apr 30, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
400 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SCREENING

Arms

  • Experimental: Ramapough Lunaape Nation
    The tribe will be provided with nutrition-rich foods and recipes for nutritious cooking.

Primary Outcome Measure

Proportion of individuals with heavy metal contaminants in home water samples [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average 2 years ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
NYU Langone HealthNew YorkNew York10016-

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