Growing Healthy Hearts
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorMilton S. Hershey Medical Center
About this trial
This proposal includes a prospective, parallel group, two-arm RCT with 264 adult-child dyads (adult age 18+, child ages 5-17 years) to examine the effectiveness of the Growing Healthy Hearts (GHH) intervention versus a wait list control on cardiovascular and behavioral health outcomes at 3-, 6- and 12-months follow-up (Aim 1). This proposal will also examine the effect of GHH on home fruit and vegetable (FV) availability, frequency of home-prepared meals that include FV, and child behaviors (FV intake and PA) at 3-, 6- and 12-month follow-up (Aim 2) and intervention implementation (Aim 3)
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Adults aged 18 or older who are interested in gardening but have no plans to garden in the coming season.
Participants will also be required to: 1) have at least one child (aged 5-17) living in the household with them
Have access to space for a garden (either at home or in a community garden space where they could plant any combination of in-ground, raised beds, and/or container gardens
Have a smartphone capable of downloading an app and syncing with a Fitbit
Disqualifiers
Adults who are pregnant
Have medical conditions that significantly limit an individual's ability to participate in gardening (e.g., knee or back pain, heart attack/stroke in the past year, recent or pending surgeries
Uncontrolled allergies, other serious physical disabilities, uncontrolled asthma)
Medical conditions that may limit participants from increasing FV intake (e.g., kidney failure or dialysis)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- GHH Intervention
Treatment groups
264 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov