Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP) Study for Online Food Pantry Shoppers
This study, called the Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP) Study, is looking at a digital tool designed to help online food pantry shoppers choose healthier foods. The tool uses "behavioral economics-based digital nudges," which are small prompts or suggestions, over six months. Researchers want to see if these nudges lead to healthier food choices. You can join if you are an adult aged 18 or older, speak English or Spanish, have a smartphone, and have used the online food pantry regularly. The main goal is to measure changes in how healthy the food you select is, comparing your choices before and after the HOAP tool is used. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 300 participants. It will evaluate the HOAP digital nudge intervention using a hybrid effectiveness-implementation design.
- What's involved
- Participants will receive behavioral digital nudges over a 6-month period. A small group of 30 participants may also have diet quality, blood pressure, body composition, and weight data collected over 6 to 12 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The primary outcome of changes in food selection will be measured at 6 months pre-intervention and 6 months post-intervention. A subgroup may have data collected over a 6- to 12-month period.
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Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP) Study
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07729436
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.
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinoisstudy 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
- Jenny Jia, MD, MSc · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Northwestern University
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What this trial measures
- Change in Healthfulness of Shopper Food Selection6 months pre-intervention and 6 months post-intervention
The primary outcome is change in the healthfulness of shopper food selection over time, measured using the Charitable Food Network Index (CFNI). At each time point, food orders will be categorized into proportions of green, yellow, and orange items based on the Healthy Eating Research (HER) guidelines. These proportions will be combined into a composite CFNI score. CFNI scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating healthier overall food selections.