An interventional study of Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) Standard and Smartphone App in Nutritional Deficiency in Pregnancy, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 44 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-07-15.
Sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Harris Health System is currently participating, along with two other partners, GoldiFresh Inc., and Brighter Bites, in a cross-sector collaborative home delivery-based Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) pilot initiative that provides consistent access to healthy food plus nutrition education to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women in Harris County, TX, deemed to be at high risk of adverse pregnancy or birth outcomes. The objectives of this study are two-fold: (a) to examine utilization of food basket contents and improvements in diet quality in this home delivery based PPRx program, and (b) to evaluate if and the extent to which utilization of food basket contents outcomes improves with support from an interactive AI-based conversational agent to convert food into healthy meals.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will receive biweekly deliveries of 20 lbs (\~50 servings) of fresh produce (8-10 different kinds of produce) plus standard nutrition education materials consisting of nutrition education infographics inside of the produce prescription boxes as well as online videos, recipes, and nutrition tips accessed via Quick Response (QR) code.
Behavioral: Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) Standard
Participants will receive biweekly deliveries of 20 lbs (\~50 servings) of fresh produce (8-10 different kinds of produce) plus the same standard nutrition education materials provided to the control group consisting of nutrition education infographics inside of the produce prescription boxes as well as online videos, recipes, and nutrition tips accessed via Quick Response (QR) code. Additionally, participants will be given access to a smartphone app that allows women to interact with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to obtain real-time cooking suggestions.
Behavioral: Produce Prescription Program (PPRx) Standard · Behavioral: Smartphone App
Participants will receive biweekly deliveries of 20 lbs (\~50 servings) of fresh produce (8-10 different kinds of produce) plus standard nutrition education materials consisting of nutrition education infographics inside of the produce prescription boxes as well as online videos, recipes, and nutrition tips accessed via Quick Response (QR) code.
Participants will be given access to a smartphone app that allows women to interact with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to obtain real-time cooking suggestions.
Change in consumption of home-delivered produce from baseline to 6 months
7 point rating scale ranging from 0=none to 6=all, assessing what proportion of delivered produce was consumed over the past two weeks.
Time frame: Measures will be collected at baseline, and 6 times at random intervals over the next 6 months
Change in usual consumption of fruits and vegetables from baseline to 6 months
Fruit and vegetable consumption scale, measured by NCI dietary screener. Scale includes multiple sources of fruit and vegetables in diet, and is scored in terms of cups of fruit / day, and cups of vegetables / day
Time frame: Measures will be collected at baseline, and after 6 months of exposure to program
Plan to share: Yes — At the end of the project, de-identified data at individual level will be uploaded to the American Heart Association (AHA) Precision-Medicine Platform.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf
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