Improving Health Outcomes Through Investigations of Wabanaki Food Systems in Maine

Part of paid clinical trials in Bangor, Maine.

Sponsor
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness
Study ID
NCT07561593
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Food Insecurity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Upscaling the Wabanaki Mobile Food Pantry Program — BEHAVIORAL
    Community-led expansion of a Mobile Food Pantry program designed to improve access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods and address food insecurity among Wabanaki communities. Outcomes are evaluated using a pre-post study design.

Study Details

Wabanaki ancestral lands historically provided abundant resources, allowing Wabanaki people to rely exclusively on hunting, fishing, and gathering for all their subsistence needs. However, as their sacred hunting and fishing grounds were lost to colonization, the Wabanaki people lost access to their traditional foods, which has had devastating impacts on the communities' health and well-being. Without access to traditional foods like fiddleheads, corn, beans, squash, wild rice, fish, and many others, the Wabanaki people experienced a surge in many nutrition-related health problems, such as diabetes, obesity, and heart-disease, which have only increased exponentially with time. This Community Research Project (CRP) seeks to improve these health outcomes for Wabanaki people by upscaling the Wabanaki Mobile Food Pantry (WMFP), an existing program that delivers fresh and traditional foods to the Tribal communities. The CRP is grounded in the understanding that food sovereignty is fundamental to achieving and sustaining the health and well-being of Wabanaki communities. The upscaled WMFP aims to increase community access to fresh, traditional, or locally sourced foods, improve community perceptions of food pantries, support cultural connection, promote sustainable, culturally relevant food systems, and increase Tribal members' knowledge and self-efficacy surrounding the cultivation, preparation, and preservation of traditional foods.

Key Dates

Start date
May 11, 2026
Status verified
May 2026
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2026
Completion
Sep 30, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
500 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Mobile Food Pantry Community Intervention Group
    Community participants exposed to the upscaled Mobile Food Pantry Intervention

Primary Outcome Measure

Food Security Status (Hunger Vital Sign / 6-Item HFSSM Score) [ Time Frame: Baseline (Wabanaki Community Survey pilot period, approximately 3-6 months) ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Wabanaki Public Health and WellnessBangorMaine04401
Nameera Fatima, MS IST
[email protected]
844-844-2622
Leigh Neptune, PhD, RDN (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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