NCT06661538RecruitingPhase 2
Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health
Addressing Food Insecurity in the Health Care Setting to Promote Health Equity
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Food insecurity (FI) disproportionately affects those who have been historically marginalized and significantly contributes to poor health outcomes. In children, FI is associated with lower psychosocial functioning and academic achievement. It also contributes to the development of adverse health outcomes such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). Improving the diet quality of children (e.g., decreasing fat intake, increasing fruits and vegetables (FV) and fiber intake) has been associated with lower fasting serum glucose, insulin, LDL cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, and reduced risk of CVD later in life. Increasing awareness and access to programs that promote food equity by providing affordable healthy produce is a promising way to improve health outcomes and empower patients and communities to achieve better health and well-being. The goal of this proposal is to refine and optimize implementation strategies that connect families to community-based food security nutrition support programs through health care systems or medical clinics. The investigators will develop a multi-disciplinary, cross-sector collaboration to optimize current processes and workflows that integrate food security nutrition support programs into the healthcare system. The investigators will also work to develop a closed-loop communication system between the healthcare and healthy food access systems to support greater patient autonomy and self-efficacy to obtain, prepare, and consume healthy foods.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 600 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 17 Oct 2024
- Start date
- 18 Aug 2025
- Primary completion date
- 15 Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
- NCT number
- NCT06661538
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 600
- From 18 Aug 2025 to the primary completion date, 15 Jun 2027
- 2 sites 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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Who the study is looking for
- child attending Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes clinics, Cardiology clinic, MASLD clinic, general GI clinic at RCHSD
- child age between 5-18 years old
- parent or caregiver who indicates that they are experiencing food insecurity and receives Medicaid or SNAP benefits
- family not moving out of the San Diego area within the time frame of the study
- Limited exclusion criteria will be applied in order to examine the impact of this program on a heterogenous group of people and increase generalizability. Of note, all genders and races/ethnicities will be allowed to participate.
Age in the registry: 5 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC San Diego Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Jolla | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Recruiting |
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