Food support programs for children with type 1 diabetes and food insecurity
Compares meal kits or produce vouchers, plus nutrition coaching, in children with type 1 diabetes.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Pilot of Food Is Medicine Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children With Food Insecurity and Diabetes
Key facts
- Where
- Providence, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 5 and 12 years old?
Source: NCT07590817, who can take part
Where in United States
- Hasbro Children's HospitalProvidence, United StatesNo longer taking part
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Katelyn Fox
- Trial code
- NCT07590817
- Record updated
- 15 May 2026
- Original description
Study Design: This two-arm parallel trial will randomize 12 families to receive 6-weeks of medically tailored meals or produce prescriptions. Both groups will receive nutrition coaching, weekly during the intervention. The hypothesis is that both interventions to have a positive impact on food security and fruit and vegetable intake. However, medically tailored meals also reduce the logistic barriers of planning, preparing, and calculating the carbohydrate content of nutritionally balanced meals essential for DM management. Therefore, the medically tailored meal intervention will result in greater improvements in the co-primary outcomes of diet quality and glucose stability after the intervention.Read full original descriptionShow less
Food Is Medicine Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children With Food Insecurity and Diabetes
Study Design: This two-arm parallel trial will randomize 12 families to receive 6-weeks of medically tailored meals or produce prescriptions. Both groups will receive nutrition coaching, weekly during the intervention. The hypothesis is that both interventions to have a positive impact on food security and fruit and vegetable intake. However, medically tailored meals also reduce the logistic barriers of planning, preparing, and calculating the carbohydrate content of nutritionally balanced meals essential for DM management. Therefore, the medically tailored meal intervention will result in greater improvements in the co-primary outcomes of diet quality and glucose stability after the intervention.
Inclusion: Families of school-age children (ages 5-12 years) with T1DM and food insecurity; fluent in English or Spanish; child uses a continuous glucose monitor (CGM); willing to provide consent for the research team to access CGM data.
Exclusion: recent diagnosis of T1DM (<6 months).