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Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families
Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an intervention to provide food support to families who are part of government or self-pay insurances will provide benefits. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Determine the effect of implementing an in-hospital food support intervention for low-income parents on reutilization and family-centered outcomes. * Among families with baseline food insecurity, determine the effectiveness of a post-discharge food support intervention and as-needed social work referral on reutilization and family-centered outcomes. Researchers will compare the in-hospital food support intervention and will be rolled out to sequential hospital units. In addition, the post-discharge food support intervention will be compared to standard discharge. Some participants will: * Receive in-hospital meal cards or standard care during hospitalization * Receive post-discharge food support intervention or standard discharge * Complete a 14-day post discharge follow-up survey
Official title: Food-based Randomized Trial for Enhancing Support of Hospitalized Children and Their Families
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - 21 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
9119
Start Date
2025-05-27
Completion Date
2029-12-31
Last Updated
2025-06-13
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
In-hospital food support intervention
The in-hospital food support intervention will provide two meals for up to two parents per day.
Post-discharge food support intervention
The post-discharge intervention will provide families with grocery gift cards and frozen meals at the time of discharge.
Locations (1)
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States