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Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS)

This study is developing and testing a mobile app called SAFPAS (Support Application for Food Pantries) to help food pantries in Baltimore. The app aims to improve how food pantries recruit and train volunteers, communicate with clients, offer healthy food choices, and prepare for emergencies. Researchers will see if using the SAFPAS app helps clients get healthier foods. You might be able to join if you are an adult (18 or older) who regularly visits a participating food pantry (at least once a month for the past year) and are willing to use a smartphone app for selecting food. The study plans to enroll 537 participants, but its current status is unclear.

Study design
This is an interventional study where 20 food pantries will be randomly chosen to either use the SAFPAS app or serve as a comparison group. The study aims to enroll 537 participants.
What's involved
Not specified in the trial record.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The main outcome, changes in healthy food access, will be assessed at 1 hour and 14 months.

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NCT05880004

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

Recruiting
NAAges 18+InterventionalPrevention
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
~537 participants
Updated 2025-12-17 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Support Application for Food PAntrieS (SAFPAS) - A mobile app that helps food pantries recruit, train and schedule volunteers, offer choice safely, and provides multilevel communications

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in Client FAST Scores as assessed by the Food Assessment Scoring Tool (FAST)
Measured over 1 hour, 14 months

Conditions

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

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Where you'd take part

This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, Marylandstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

Study leadership

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

Who to contact

Cara Shipley, BS
[email protected]
(410)502-6961
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

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)
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

Exclusion

Anticipate moving out of Baltimore in the next 12 months (for pilot study)
Pregnant (due to changes in diet, weight and body composition)
Medically or behaviorally at risk as indicated by the food pantry
No access to a smart phone or other web-enabled device and Wi-Fi

What this trial measures

  • Change in Client FAST Scores as assessed by the Food Assessment Scoring Tool (FAST)1 hour, 14 months

    Food Assessment Scoring Tool (FAST)(91) scores of client bags from pantries will be captured by the FAST scoring tool at baseline and post-treatment in a sample of 360 client bags (18 clients customers/pantry in 10 intervention and 10 control pantries, at baseline). Scores can range from 0-100 and are calculated based on the total weight and healthfulness of foods and beverages from 13 categories.