Evaluation of Demonstrations to End Childhood Hunger - KY

NCT04283344 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: AG-3198-C-14-0019 (Kentucky)
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 4,504
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization provided funding to test innovative strategies to end childhood hunger and food insecurity. Demonstration projects were funded in Chickasaw Nation, Kentucky, Navajo Nation, Nevada, and Virginia. This study focuses on Kentucky. Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula: (1) a fixed deduction, depending on county of residence, for transportation costs for six round trips to the grocery store per month; and (2) an earnings deduction equal to 10 percent of earned income for households with at least one employed household member. Households in the control group continued to receive their regular monthly SNAP benefit amounts.

Conditions

Food Insecurity Among Children

Keywords

Food Security; Hunger; Rural; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Food expenditures

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Food Insecurity among Children

  Measured by the United States Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM). Affirming 2 or more out of the 8 child-level items in the HFSSM. Higher scores generally indicates worsening food insecurity.

  30 days

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Very Low Food Insecurity among Children

  30 days

• Food Insecurity among Adults

  30 days

• Household Food Insecurity

  30 days

• Food Expenditures

  30 days

Study Arms (2)

KY Ticket to Healthy Food Benefits

EXPERIMENTAL

Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula: (1) a fixed deduction, depending on county of residence, for transportation costs for six round trips to the grocery store per month; and (2) an earnings deduction equal to 10 percent of earned income for households with at least one employed household member.

Other: KY Ticket to Healthy Food Benefits

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Households in the control group continued to receive their regular monthly SNAP benefit amounts.

Interventions

KY Ticket to Healthy Food Benefits OTHER

Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula

KY Ticket to Healthy Food Benefits

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: Up to 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• SNAP households with: (1) positive net income, (2) at least one child under the age of 18 by the end of the demonstration period, and (3) living in 17 geographically isolated and poor counties in eastern Kentucky.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• USDA Food and Nutrition Service: lead
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.: collaborator

Related Links

• Final Report

Study Officials

• Michael P Burke, PhD

  USDA Food and Nutrition Service

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: FED
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2019
• First Posted: February 25, 2020
• Study Start: January 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2018
• Study Completion: March 1, 2018
• Last Updated: February 25, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: April 2019