NCT02672748

Brief Summary

The Growing Resilience research leverages reservation-based assets of land, family, culture, and front-line tribal health organizations to develop and evaluate home food gardens as a family-based health promotion intervention to reduce disparities suffered by Native Americans in nearly every measure of health. Home gardening interventions show great promise for enabling families to improve their health, and this study aims to fulfill that promise with university and Wind River Indian Reservation partners. The investigators will develop an empowering, scalable, and sustainable family-based health promotion intervention with, by, and for Native American families and conduct the first RCT to assess the health impacts of home gardens.

Trial Health

87
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
338

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable obesity

Timeline
Completed

Started Nov 2015

Longer than P75 for not_applicable obesity

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
completed

Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.

Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

November 1, 2015

Completed
8 days until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

November 9, 2015

Completed
3 months until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

February 3, 2016

Completed
5.5 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

August 1, 2021

Completed
1.7 years until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

March 31, 2023

Completed
Last Updated

July 20, 2023

Status Verified

July 1, 2023

Enrollment Period

5.8 years

First QC Date

November 9, 2015

Last Update Submit

July 18, 2023

Conditions

Keywords

gardenNative AmericanBMIEmotional healthPhysical health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Adult BMI change

    With four data points, every 6 months. Researcher-measured height (stadiometer) and Tanita body composition scale.

    Change from baseline at 2 years

Secondary Outcomes (14)

  • Mental Health change

    Change from baseline at 2 years

  • Physical Health change

    Change from baseline at 2 years

  • Food security change

    Change from baseline at 2 years

  • Self-efficacy in gardening change

    Change from baseline at 2 years

  • Pain change

    Change from baseline at 2 years

  • +9 more secondary outcomes

Study Arms (2)

Gardening

EXPERIMENTAL

Receiving two years of technical, labor and financial support in starting, growing, and harvesting from a home food garden.

Other: Garden

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control families receive a garden as a delayed intervention after two years.

Interventions

GardenOTHER

Two years of financial and technical home gardening support for new gardeners

Gardening

Eligibility Criteria

Age5 Years - 80 Years
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersYes
Age GroupsChild (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • self-identify as having one or more household members who are enrolled in a tribe
  • express interest in having a food garden
  • express willingness to wait to create a food garden for two years if randomized to control
  • live within the boundaries of Wind River Indian Reservation, including the City of Riverton.
  • if the household has two or more adults, that at least two adults in the household express willingness to participate in the semi-annual data gathering for two years.

You may not qualify if:

  • had a home food garden plot in the previous year that is over 30 square feet in area.

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

University of Wyoming

Laramie, Wyoming, 82071, United States

Location

Related Publications (3)

  • Naschold F, Porter CM. BMI Status and Trends among Native American Family Members Participating in the Growing Resilience Home Garden Study. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022 Jun 3;6(7):nzac100. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzac100. eCollection 2022 Jul.

  • Porter CM, Wechsler AM, Hime SJ, Naschold F. Adult Health Status Among Native American Families Participating in the Growing Resilience Home Garden Study. Prev Chronic Dis. 2019 Aug 22;16:E113. doi: 10.5888/pcd16.190021.

  • Porter CM, Wechsler AM, Naschold F, Hime SJ, Fox L. Assessing health impacts of home food gardens with Wind River Indian Reservation families: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr 3;9(4):e022731. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022731.

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

ObesityOverweightDiabetes MellitusPsychological Well-Being

Interventions

Gardens

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

OvernutritionNutrition DisordersNutritional and Metabolic DiseasesBody WeightSigns and SymptomsPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsGlucose Metabolism DisordersMetabolic DiseasesEndocrine System DiseasesPersonal SatisfactionBehavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

AgricultureTechnology, Industry, and AgricultureNon-Medical Public and Private Facilities

Study Officials

  • Christine M Porter, PhD

    University of Wyoming

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Who Masked
OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
Masking Details
The primary data analyst will not know which set of results are from people in the gardening vs. the control condition.
Purpose
TREATMENT
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PI Title
Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

November 9, 2015

First Posted

February 3, 2016

Study Start

November 1, 2015

Primary Completion

August 1, 2021

Study Completion

March 31, 2023

Last Updated

July 20, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-07

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will not share

IPD will be made available to each individual participant, but otherwise only the data summaries will be made available to non-partner parties unless individually arranged and approved by the IRB and project Community Advisory Board. The Northern Arapaho and the Eastern Shoshone tribes co-own the data with the research teams (and Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health and Northern Arapaho Tribal Health are entities of the tribal governments).

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