Food: A Three-Arm Study Examining Food Insecurity Interventions

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01603316

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Official title

Food: A Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Study Examining Food Insecurity Interventions

Brief summary

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The investigators have found that many patients getting treatment for cancer have trouble getting enough to eat, or do not always have enough money for food. When a patient has these problems it can lead to difficulties with completing cancer treatment. Across New York City, there are many hospitals that offer their patients food pantry services on location. The investigators would like to compare how food pantries within the hospital and two other food assistance options: monthly food vouchers and weekly grocery deliveries maybe possible solutions to this problem. The patient will be randomly assigned to one of the three different food program groups, which means everyone has an equal chance in being in any group, like a flip of a coin. The investigators hope to learn how to best help patients with trouble getting food and to see if this will help with completing cancer treatment. The original RCT composed of study arms: 1) hospital -based food pantry (control), 2) food voucher program plus access to the food pantry, and 3) grocery delivery program plus access to the food pantry will remain open to accrual at Ralph Lauren Cancer Center. The other three sites of the original RCT, Lincoln Hospital, Queens Cancer Center and Brooklyn Hospital, have reached target accrual. Our modified RCT, to be carried out among an expanded cohort of cancer patients is composed of study arms : 1) Food Voucher Program (Voucher); 2) Home Grocery Delivery Program (Delivery); and 3) Medically-tailored, Hospital-based Food Pantry (Pantry). For this RCT, we will enroll patients across Bronx hospitals- Jacobi Medical Center, St. Barnabas Hospital, and Montefiore Medical Center. For the new study arms, we will enroll patients across Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Jacobi Medical Center, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Montefiore Health System, New York Cancer \& Blood Before Specialists, and Bellevue Hospital. Before conducting the RCT across Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center and the new sites in the Bronx, we will refine written educational materials to be used in the intervention through focus groups.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT01603316
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Phase 2
Lead sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Other
Enrollment: 606 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Cancer Patients

Interventions

Focus groups Behavioral
surveys Behavioral

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 18 Years and older
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date: May 7, 2012
Primary completion: Apr 30, 2027
Completion: Apr 30, 2027
Last update posted: Jun 8, 2026

2012 – 2027

United States locations

U.S. sites: 10
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 4

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
Brooklyn Hospital Center	Brooklyn	New York	11201	—
Queens Hospital Center	Jamaica	New York	11432	—
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York	New York	10065	—
Bellevue Hospital Center	New York	New York	—	—
Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention	New York	New York	—	—
St. Barnabas Medical Center	The Bronx	New York	10457	—
Jacobi Medical Center	The Bronx	New York	10465	—
Montefiore Health System (Montefiore Medical Center)	The Bronx	New York	10467	—
New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (Data collection only)	The Bronx	New York	10469	—
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center	The Bronx	New York	—	—

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