NCT05010018Completed
A Mobile Application to Improve Procurement and Distribution of Healthful Foods & Beverages in Baltimore City
A Mobile Application to Improve Procurement and Distribution of Healthful Foods & Beverages in Low Income Urban Communities
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Low-income urban communities have many small food stores, but poor access to healthier foods and beverages. The investigators will develop, implement and evaluate the feasibility of a Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) web-based application (app) to improve access to affordable, healthier products from local producers/wholesalers in 38 urban corner stores in low-income Baltimore neighborhoods, using a randomized controlled trial design and assess its impact on store stocking and sales. The R34 will provide a developed and tested version of the BUD app, which will resolve challenges related to affordability and delivery of healthful foods and beverages to small food stores, permit development of new instruments, assess potential impacts at the consumer level, permitting power and sample size estimates for the full-scale clinical trial, and demonstrate the investigators' ability to recruit and retain large numbers of wholesalers, producers, and corner stores in low-income urban settings.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 310 (actual)
- First submitted
- 22 Jul 2021
- Start date
- 29 Oct 2021
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05010018
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 310
- From 29 Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- Anticipate moving out of Baltimore City in the next 12 months
- Pregnant (due to changes in diet, weight and body composition)
Who the study is looking for
- Inclusion criteria for stores:
- Store owner/manager willing and able to order food through a smart phone or other internet-enabled device
- Store owner/manager willing to attend in-store trainings in the use of the BUD App
- Store located in a low-income neighborhood considered as a Healthy Food Priority Area by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future111 in East Baltimore
- Store located \>0.25 miles from a supermarket
- Store classified as a small food store (\< 4 aisles, \< 2 cash registers)
- Store owner/manager is English, Korean, Spanish or Mandarin-speaking for first language
- Provide service to Baltimore City (e.g., for producers, this could mean participating in Baltimore City-based farmers markets)
- Willing to use the BUD app, including posting and maintaining data on a minimum number of products
- Willing to participate with delivery services arranged
- Regular customers of the store (purchase food items at least once a week in the store) identified by the small food store owner/manager enrolled in the study
- Adult (between 21 years old and 75 years old)
- Live/work within a 1/2 mile radius from one of the 38 small food stores participating in the study
- Live in a household of at least 2 persons (criteria intended to provide a more stable sample, to reduce loss to follow-up)
Age in the registry: 21 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
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