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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Home-delivery Based Produce Prescription Program Implementation Strategies
Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Summary
Harris Health System is currently participating, along with two other partners, GoldiFresh Inc., and Brighter Bites, in a cross-sector collaborative home delivery-based Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) pilot initiative that provides consistent access to healthy food plus nutrition education to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women in Harris County, TX, deemed to be at high risk of adverse pregnancy or birth outcomes. The objectives of this study are two-fold: (a) to examine utilization of food basket contents and improvements in diet quality in this home delivery based PPRx program, and (b) to evaluate if and the extent to which utilization of food basket contents outcomes improves with support from an interactive AI-based conversational agent to convert food into healthy meals.
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - 44 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2024-07-26
Completion Date
2025-11-25
Last Updated
2025-07-15
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) Standard
Participants will receive biweekly deliveries of 20 lbs (\~50 servings) of fresh produce (8-10 different kinds of produce) plus standard nutrition education materials consisting of nutrition education infographics inside of the produce prescription boxes as well as online videos, recipes, and nutrition tips accessed via Quick Response (QR) code.
Smartphone App
Participants will be given access to a smartphone app that allows women to interact with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to obtain real-time cooking suggestions.
Locations (1)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States