Community Agriculture Nutritional Enterprises (CANE) Meal Program

Previous adult participants of the Tanglewood to Table walking program will be recruited to enroll in the CANE Meal Program. This program will encourage participants to pick up a healthy meal from the CANE Kitchen each week for five weeks. The meal will consist of at least one serving of fruit or vegetables. At each meal, educational materials will be distributed, including the recipe for healthy meals and nutrition handouts that are linked to the recipes. Additional information about the ways the nutrients in the meal may help protect from the negative effects of environmental pollutants will be included. Surveys, blood pressure, height, weight, waist circumference and carotenoid status will be assessed before and after the program.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Diet, Healthy; Life Style, Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: CANE Meal Program

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 41
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kentucky
    • Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
      • University of Kentucky

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 99 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• over 18 years of age
• previous participant in Tanglewood to Table Walking Program

Exclusion Criteria:

• institutionalized adults
• children under the age of 18
• adults with impaired consent capacity
• incarcerated adults

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: CANE Adult Participants; This sample population consists of an active intervention group of prior Tanglewood to Table walking program adult participants.

Behavioral: CANE Meal Program; Participants will be encouraged to pick up a healthy meal from the Community Agriculture Nutritional Experience (CANE) Kitchen in Whitesburg, Kentucky once a week for five weeks. The meals will consist of at least one serving of a fruit or a vegetable. At each meal, education materials will be distributed, including the recipe for the healthy meals and nutrition handouts that are linked to the recipes. Additional information about the ways the nutrients in the meal may help protect from the negative effects of environmental pollutants will be included.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in fruit and vegetable consumption.	Fruit and vegetable consumption will be assessed with a food frequency questionnaire pre- and post-intervention. This questionnaire asks participants to estimate the frequency of consumption on a ten point scale (from never to three times per day) of 45 specific fruits or vegetables. Aggregate scores range from 0-450 with higher scores indicating increased consumption.	Five weeks
Change in weight.	Body weight will be measured on a digital scale pre- and post-intervention.	Five weeks
Change in waist circumference	Waist circumference will be measured with a tape measure pre- and post-intervention.	Five weeks
Change in total blood pressure	Systolic and diastolic blood pressure will be measured pre- and post-intervention using a digital blood pressure machine.	Five weeks
Change in carotenoid status	Carotenoid status will be measured via carotenoid RS scanner, an objective measure of diet-derived pigments in the skin.	Five weeks
Change in knowledge of nutrition and environmental pollution.	Knowledge of nutrition and environmental pollution will be assessed using a mixed 6-item survey containing 4 "yes" "no" "not sure" questions and two multiple choice knowledge questions. The questionnaire does not have an absolute range, but a higher percent of "not sure" responses indicates less knowledge of nutrition and pollution; while a higher percentage of absolutely correct responses indicates increased knowledge. Data will be reported as the change from pre- to post-intervention.	Five weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Dawn Brewer
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Dawn Brewer, University of Kentucky

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 23, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 29, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): May 29, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 17, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 17, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): January 23, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 23, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 21, 2020
• Last Verified: July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: exercise; fruits; vegetables; community; education
• Other Study ID Numbers: 55735

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No