NCT06358859Active, not recruiting
Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Intervention
Delta GREENS Mississippi Food is Medicine Intervention
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Mississippi is a place deeply rooted in cultural values, yet also a place where generations of communities have experienced persistent health challenges intertwined with poverty. This project focuses on Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower, contiguous counties in the Delta that are designated as health disparity populations. Over 65% of the 100,000 residents are Black/African American and \~30% live at or below the poverty level. Obesity rates are high and the rate of diabetes is almost double the national average. Tufts University received a grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop, test, and evaluate a Food is Medicine program in Mississippi. The Delta GREENS Food is Medicine (FIM) Project, is a collaborative project in Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower counties in Mississippi. The intervention involves regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes as well as nutrition education materials to the intervention group. The control group will receive produce boxes later, after they complete study activities. The project's primary goal is to improve health outcomes by creating a FIM intervention. The Delta GREENS FIM Project aims to become a model for promoting nutrition security and management of chronic conditions in varied communities nationwide.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Apr 2024
- Start date
- 5 Jun 2024
- Primary completion date
- May 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Tufts University
- Diseases
- Obesity, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06358859
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 300
- From 5 Jun 2024 to the primary completion date, May 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- History of bariatric surgery or considering bariatric surgery in the next year or prior bariatric surgery
- Drug or alcohol misuse that would impair the ability to complete study activities
Other illness
- Type 1 diabetes
- Uncontrolled hypertension:
- Systolic blood pressure \> 160 mmHg
- Diastolic blood pressure \> 100 mmHg
- Severe symptomatic cardiovascular disease
- Recent (6 months) history of:
- Myocardial infarction
- Percutaneous coronary intervention
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Participant in diabetes, nutrition, or weight intervention research in the last 12 months
- Known psychosis or major psychiatric illness that prevents participation in study activities
Other
- Current use of incretin agonists (e.g., semaglutide, dulaglutide, liraglutide)
- Another family member or household member is a study participant
- Lack of safe, stable residence and ability to store produce
- Lack of telephone
- Pregnancy/breastfeeding or intended pregnancy in the next year
- Any other reason that in the investigators' best judgment places the participants at risk or increases likelihood of poor adherence
Who the study is looking for
- Patient at participating Delta Health Center (DHC) clinics
- BMI: ≥ 25
- Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c): \>5.7 to 8.5%, inclusive
Age in the registry: 21 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tufts University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
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