Promoting Nutrition Security and Chronic Disease Management Through a Produce Prescription Program

Part of paid clinical trials in Richmond, Virginia.

Sponsor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study ID
NCT07117201
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Dietary Intervention
  • Produce Prescription
  • Social Needs Screening

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Culturally Tailored Cooking Classes — BEHAVIORAL
    Cooking skills session will be offered by the Delicious Legacy Program. The Delicious Legacy program is a culturally tailored, community-based nutrition and wellness intervention designed to promote health equity. Rooted in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, the program emphasizes family socialization practices related to food, health beliefs, and caregiving. It integrates evidence-based nutritional education with ancestral foodways to address diet-related chronic illnesses while fostering cultural pride and resilience. Through interactive workshops, individuals engage in hands-on learning that reinforces traditional roles in food preparation and shared meals as sites of emotional support and identity formation.
  • Prescription Produce Plan — BEHAVIORAL
    The standard PPP includes three major parts. 1) Screening and personalized referrals/support for social needs including food, housing, health insurance and transportation by a community health worker. 2) Bi-weekly wellness visits with an MHWP team of interprofessional healthcare students, supervised by a clinical faculty, and guided by the participants' health and social needs and interests. They include education and SMART-EST goals around nutrition, physical activities, chronic disease management, care coordination, and/or recipes. 3) Delivery of a bag of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as heart healthy food items every two weeks over a period of 12 months. The produce bags will be made by the Underground Kitchen, a local non-profit organization creating curated bags of healthy food items and recipes to support the prevention and management of chronic diseases.

Study Details

The goal of this study is to assess the feasibility to implement a prescription produce program (PPP) over 12-months within a community-based health and wellness program. The main questions it aims to answer are: a) does participation in the PPP improve participants' nutrition and food security status, health outcomes, diet quality and chronic disease management between baseline and 12 months after participating in the PPP? b) what is the cost-benefit analysis of the PPP implementation?

Key Dates

Start date
Sep 3, 2025
Status verified
Dec 2025
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2026
Completion
Aug 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
30 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Active Comparator: Standard Prescription Produce Program (PPP)
    The preliminary clinical effectiveness of the program on nutrition and food security status, diet quality as well as chronic disease management of individuals participating in the study
  • Experimental: Standard Prescription Produce Program (PPP) + Cooking Classes
    The preliminary clinical effectiveness of the program on nutrition and food security status, diet quality as well as chronic disease management of individuals participating in the study AND cooking classes offered by Delicious Legacy.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change from baseline in food security status at 12 months [ Time Frame: From baseline to the end of intervention at 12 months ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Virginia Commonwealth University Mobile Health and Wellness ProgramRichmondVirginia23298-

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