Food Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families
This study is looking at whether providing food support to families with hospitalized children can help improve their well-being and reduce hospital readmissions. Researchers are testing two types of support: in-hospital food support, which provides two meals a day for up to two parents, and post-discharge food support, which includes grocery gift cards and frozen meals when a child leaves the hospital. The study wants to see if these interventions reduce how often children need to return to the hospital urgently within 30 days, and if they help reduce hunger and food insecurity for families during and after their hospital stay. You may be able to join if your child is under 21, has Medicaid insurance or is uninsured, and is not receiving end-of-life care or being discharged to a location other than home.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 9119 participants. Researchers will compare the in-hospital food support intervention across different hospital units and the post-discharge food support intervention to standard discharge practices.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The study will follow up on urgent hospital re-utilization for 30 days post-discharge and on hunger and food insecurity for 14 days post-discharge.
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Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06946355
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.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohiono site contact published
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
- Kathy Auger · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · [email protected]
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What this trial measures
- 30-day urgent reutilization30 days post-discharge
Validated measure of unplanned readmission/ED/urgent care use via electronic health record (EHR)
- Hunger during hospitalizationWithin 36 hours before discharge
USDA Six-Item Short Form of the Food Security Survey Module, adapted to measure hunger in hospital. Families with lower scores are less likely to experience food insecurity. The family's level of food insecurity increases with the score. * Raw score 0-1-High food security * Raw score 2-4-Low food security * Raw score 5-6-Very low food security
- Post-discharge hunger and food insecurity14 Days post-discharge
USDA Six-Item Short Form of the Food Security Survey Module. Families with lower scores are less likely to experience food insecurity. The family's level of food insecurity increases with the score. * Raw score 0-1-High food security * Raw score 2-4-Low food security * Raw score 5-6-Very low food security