RECRUITING

Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness

Study Overview

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Description

Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness. The investigators will develop, implement, and evaluate the Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS), a mobile application to address these concerns under normal and emergency operations, and assess its impact on 20 Baltimore food pantries, and on the healthiness of foods received by 360 food pantry clients using a randomized controlled trial design. If successful, the tested and refined app will support local food assistance programs throughout the United States.

Official Title

Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness

Quick Facts

Study Start:2023-06-14
Study Completion:2026-10-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT05880004

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Regular client of the food pantry (visit food pantry/order from one or more participating food pantries at least 1 time/month), for the past year, identified by food pantry personnel Adult (18 years or older)
  2. * Willing and able to use a mobile app through a smart phone (or other device) for making electronic Choice (echoice) selections and engaging in other communications
  1. * Anticipate moving out of Baltimore in the next 12 months (for pilot study)
  2. * Pregnant (due to changes in diet, weight and body composition)
  3. * Medically or behaviorally at risk as indicated by the food pantry
  4. * No access to a smart phone or other web-enabled device and Wi-Fi

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Cara Shipley, BS
CONTACT
(410)502-6961
cshiple9@jhu.edu

Principal Investigator

Joel Gittlesohn, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Locations (Sites)

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, 21205
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Joel Gittlesohn, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2023-06-14
Study Completion Date2026-10-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2023-06-14
Study Completion Date2026-10-31

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Improving Healthy Food Access in Food Insecurity Populations in Normal and Emergency Situations