Clinical trial NCT05672186: Mobile Food Market Cluster Randomized Trial
Official title: Evaluating Diet, Food Insecurity, and Food Purchasing Outcomes of a Full-Service Mobile Food Market With a Cluster Randomized Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy Diet
Nutrition, Healthy
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-01-05
Enrollment: 262
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Mobile food markets have been proposed as a strategy for mitigating health disparities related to poor nutrition and diet/weight-related health conditions because they bring low-cost, healthy food directly to underserved populations. Full-service mobile markets may improve multiple aspects of the diet by providing foods to meet all dietary needs through a convenient one-stop shop. The full-service mobile market to be tested (Twin Cities Mobile Market) sells nutritious and staple foods from a bus that regularly visits low-income neighborhoods. Foods are sold at prices \~10% below those of grocery stores. SNAP/EBT is accepted, and a state-funded fruit/vegetable incentive program (Market Bucks) is available to shoppers. Working in partnership with our community team members, we will enroll 12 total sites and recruit 22 participants per site (N=264). We will collect baseline data and randomize sites to either receive the full-service mobile market intervention or serve as the waitlist control. We will then implement the full-service mobile market at intervention sites, follow participants for 6 months, and collect follow-up data. After follow-up data collection, waitlist control sites will receive the full-service mobile market intervention. Diet quality will be assessed through dietary recall interviews, food insecurity will be assessed by survey, and fruit and vegetable purchases will be measured by collecting one month of food purchase tracking forms at baseline and follow-up data collection. Analyses will determine whether the full-service mobile market changes diet quality, food security, and food purchasing outcomes.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Community sites (e.g., public housing hi-rise, low-income senior living residence) must meet the following criteria:

* locale for low-income populations that experience difficulty in accessing healthy, affordable foods (e.g., public housing residences; low-income senior housing) or a community center in a low-income, low-food access (0.5 mile) census tract;
* willingness to be randomized to the intervention or waitlist control;
* located over 0.5 miles apart from other trial sites;
* willingness to allow for recruitment and data collection to occur in onsite community rooms

Participants must meet the following criteria:

* being aged 18 years or older;
* identifying as the primary food shopper in their household;
* being able to speak English or ASL;
* living within a half mile of the community site location; and
* reporting to be likely or somewhat likely to shop at the market in response to: "how likely would you be to shop regularly at the Twin Cities Mobile Market if it came to your neighborhood each week (response options: likely to unlikely).
* willing and able to participate in all study data collection activities

Exclusion Criteria:

* planning to move in the next 12 months
* currently shopping at the mobile market
* not having a phone number or mailing address
* presence of a condition or abnormality that would prohibit participation in the study or the quality of the data

Primary outcomes:
measure: Diet quality
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Food insecurity
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Level of food insecurity
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Average weekly servings of fruits and vegetables procured
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Fruit and vegetables (servings/day)
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Daily intake of energy (kcal/day)
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Percent calories from added sugar
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
measure: Sodium (mg/day)
timeFrame: At baseline and 6 month follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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