NCT03718832Completed
Fresh Food Farmacy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Jun 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This trial investigates the value created by the highly innovative Fresh Food Farmacy (FFF) program at Geisinger Health. The program provides food-insecure diabetics with healthy food for their entire household: at least two meals per day, five days a week. The program also provides education on how to prepare the food, and education on healthy living including diabetes self management. The research measures the effects of the FFF program on patient health and wellbeing.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 500 (actual)
- First submitted
- 17 Oct 2018
- Start date
- 22 Apr 2019
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2023
- Lead sponsor
- John B Bulger, DO
- Diseases
- Type 2 diabetes
- NCT number
- NCT03718832
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 500
- From 22 Apr 2019 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2023
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Lab values
- Active medical disorder that would preclude participation in the classes, weekly clinic visits, or result in a limited diet, including:
- Cancer; active treatment
- Steroid dependent asthma/ COPD/ emphysema
- Steroid dependent Colitis
- Chronic Kidney Disease with GFR\< 30 mg/mmol
- Celiac disease
- Cirrhosis
- Steroid dependent arthritis
Other
- Already enrolled in FFF in Shamokin
- Not English speaking (working on changing this as the program evolves)
- On hospice or palliative care
- Acute or chronic psychosis
- Resides in a facility which provides meals
Who the study is looking for
- Type II Diabetes and an HbA1c ≥ 8.0 as determined by the most recent measurement in the Geisinger EMR within the prior 12 months
- Food insecure based on a two-question survey instrument
- Age \> 17 \& Age \<86
- Living within geographic reach of the program (Lewistown, PA and Scranton, PA)
Age in the registry: 18 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Food Farmacy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lewistown | United States | Unknown status |
| Fresh Food Farmacy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Scranton | United States | Unknown status |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.