The Community Garden Health Block

NCT06455215 | Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: 297248OT2HL156812
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 138
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goals of this community-based clinical trial are to examine the association between community garden participation and 1) fruit and vegetable intake (primary outcome) and 2) access to healthy food (secondary outcome) among adults aged 18-95 living in low resource communities. Gardens will be randomized to the intervention (n=4 gardens) or control group (delayed intervention, n=3 gardens). Participants will be assigned to one of seven community gardens to receive an 8-week intervention. During the intervention, participants will be asked to volunteer in the garden, participate in garden social activities, participate in healthy cooking demonstrations and educational sessions. Participants will receive educational materials as well. To assess the effects of the intervention, participants will receive a baseline, 8-week, and 6-month survey. Outcome measures will be compared between the intervention and control groups.

Conditions

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Keywords

food security, community gardens, fruit/vegetable consumption

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Fruit and vegetable intake

  We will use the five factor screener that is used to approximate intake of fruit juices, fruit, green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, tomato-based sauces, potatoes, and beans

  From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Access to healthy foods

  From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention

Study Arms (2)

Garden intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The gardens in the intervention group will receive an 8-week intervention that includes 1) educational materials, 2) healthy cooking demonstrations, food and transportation support and 3) garden social activities.

Behavioral: Community garden activities

Delayed intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The control group will be asked to abstain from intervention activities during the 8 week period. The control group will receive the delayed 8-week intervention one month after the intervention group.

Behavioral: Community garden activities

Interventions

Community garden activities BEHAVIORAL

The gardens in the intervention group will receive an 8-week intervention that includes 1) educational materials, 2) healthy cooking demonstrations, food and transportation support and 3) garden social activities. The control group will be asked to abstain from intervention activities. The control group will receive the delayed 8-week intervention one month after the intervention group.

Delayed intervention; Garden intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 95 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Arkansas resident aged 18-95;
• live in community within 1 mile radius of a participating garden;
• speak English;
• willingness to participate in the garden as a volunteer during the study intervention period;
• not previously participated in the garden as a volunteer in past 6 months;
• scores as food insecure on 1 of any of the food security measures (i.e. food did not last, could not eat balanced meal, cut the size or skip meals and frequency at which this happens, eat less than you think you should, were hungry but did not eat);
• written informed consent;
• working phone, home address, and email;
• \) willingness to complete all survey assessments.

You may not qualify if:

• Does not live within 1 mile radius of a participating garden.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Arkansas: lead
• University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center: collaborator
• Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas: collaborator
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH

  UAMS

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH

CONTACT

301-802-7735; pfagan@uams.edu

Elizabeth Taylor, BA

CONTACT

501-526-6689; betaylor@uams.edu

Study Design

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

Model Details: Randomization will occur at the garden level. Four gardens will be randomized to the intervention and three gardens to the control group. The participants assigned to the four gardens in the intervention group will receive an 8-week intervention that includes 1) educational materials, 2) healthy cooking demonstrations, 3) food and transportation support and 4) garden social activities. The control garden group will not receive an intervention during this time period which allows us to evaluate differences in the primary and secondary outcomes in the intervention and control groups at 8 weeks and 6 months. The control group will receive the delayed 8-week intervention one month after the intervention group.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 6, 2024
• First Posted: June 12, 2024
• Study Start: July 15, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2028
• Last Updated: January 21, 2026

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: The data will be made available approximately 1 year after the completion of the study, which is approximately when the final results will be published. ICPSR stores data indefinitely.
• Access Criteria: The data are publicly available via ICPSR.

Locations

US (1)