Virtual Teaching Kitchen

NCT04509206 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: H-39597
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 16
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A novel way of delivering nutritional education is through experiential learning in a teaching kitchen setting. Studies have shown that patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent a series of classes that featured nutrition recommendations and cooking classes had improved cardiac health. Boston Medical Center (BMC) serves many underserved, low-income patients and has developed an innovative strategy to combat food insecurity and its consequences. This includes a preventative food pantry, a teaching kitchen, and a rooftop farm that provides fresh produce directly to the patients. The presence of this well-established three-pronged approach places our institution in an ideal position to develop a nutritional education intervention that supports experiential learning in this high-risk population. Given the increasing focus on providing remote experiences to minimize contact and risk of infection with Sars-COV-2, the investigators are proposing a study where patients can benefit from nutritional education virtually. Patients with food insecurity and metabolic syndrome who utilize the food pantry will be invited to an educational program conducted on zoom. The program will be run by a registered dietician and chef who will deliver education virtually. Data will be collected using surveys, phone interviews, chart review, and home monitoring to test both the feasibility of running such an intervention virtually and to explore whether attending this program improves cardiac health in patients.

Conditions

Cardiac Health; Metabolic Syndrome

Keywords

virtual nutritional education; teaching kitchen; food insecurity; zoom media

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• recruitment rates

  based on number of people invited to participate, number recruited and consented and number attended

  12 months

• retention rates

  based on attendance at each virtual educational session

  12 months

• facilitators for nutritional education

  information will be obtained through qualitative interviews

  12 months

• barriers to nutritional education

  information will be obtained through qualitative interviews

  12 months

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• knowledge of healthy foods

  12 months

• change in blood pressure (BP)

  baseline, up to 6 months

• change in blood glucose

  baseline, up to 6 months

• change in hemoglobin A1c

  baseline, 6 months

• change in weight

  baseline, up to 6 months

Study Arms (1)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Subjects will undergo four nutritional educational classes, lasting 1 hour long, conducted over a two month period. These classes will occur on zoom and subjects will be located in their home.

Behavioral: Nutritional education

Interventions

Nutritional education BEHAVIORAL

The curriculum for the four classes include understanding MyPlate guidelines, learn basic knife skills, meal prep, and plan, home farming and no-cook cooking.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 30 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Users of the food pantry
• English speaking
• Must have one of following on their EPIC problem list (Diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia or obstructive sleep apnea)
• Must have documented measured blood pressure, weight, height in the 12 months prior to the intervention.

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with advanced dementia or uncontrolled psychiatric disease
• Non-english speakers since education delivered in the pilot in English
• Uncontrolled medical illness including hypertension, recent acute coronary syndrome, active malignancy or other condition that would make the subject unable to complete the study procedures

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Boston University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Boston Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Metabolic Syndrome

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Insulin Resistance; Hyperinsulinism; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Officials

• Naomi M Hamburg, MD

  Dept of Cardiology, BU School of Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 7, 2020
• First Posted: August 11, 2020
• Study Start: September 28, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 28, 2021
• Study Completion: August 13, 2021
• Last Updated: October 8, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)