Fresh Takes!: An Evaluation of the Impact of Receiving Fresh Food Boxes

Description

Fresh Takes! is a targeted food distribution and nutrition education program offered by Montefiore Bronx Health Collective, a Federally Qualified Health Center located in the South Bronx. The goal of Fresh Takes! is to help reduce food insecurity and prevent progressions to overt diabetes in patients with prediabetes and to help patients with overt diabetes achieve better diabetic control. To that end, participants receive bimonthly fresh food boxes and nutritional support and education over the course of a six-month program.

Conditions

Diabetes, PreDiabetes, Food Insecurity

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Fresh Takes! is a targeted food distribution and nutrition education program offered by Montefiore Bronx Health Collective, a Federally Qualified Health Center located in the South Bronx. The goal of Fresh Takes! is to help reduce food insecurity and prevent progressions to overt diabetes in patients with prediabetes and to help patients with overt diabetes achieve better diabetic control. To that end, participants receive bimonthly fresh food boxes and nutritional support and education over the course of a six-month program.

Fresh Takes!: An Evaluation of the Impact of Receiving Fresh Food Boxes on Dietary Intake, Food Insecurity, and Diabetic Control for Individuals With Diabetes or Prediabetes

Fresh Takes!: An Evaluation of the Impact of Receiving Fresh Food Boxes

Condition
Diabetes
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Bronx

Montefiore Bronx Health Collective, Bronx, New York, United States, 10459

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 18-75 years of age
  • * Be a patient of BHC
  • * Experienced food insecurity in the previous year
  • 1. having diabetes based on an ICD diagnosis code in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) or having a less than ideal HbA1c level, defined as \>6.4% within the preceding 12 months OR
  • 2. having prediabetes based on an ICD diagnosis code in the EMR or by having a HbA1c level between 5.7% - 6.4% in the preceding 12 months.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 75 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Montefiore Medical Center,

Barbara Hackley, PhD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, Montefiore Medical Center

Rubayat Qadeer, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Montefiore Medical Center

Study Record Dates

2027-06