Progress 09/01/23 to 08/31/24
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Target Audience:This primarily descriptive, prospective cohort of Fresh Connect services is designed to understand food insecurity, COVID infections, and other measures of family well-being during the COVID pandemic. Our efforts targeted families with children who receive care at the Boston Medical Center Department of Pediatrics through Project REACH - an outreach program where callers (who are part of the regular care team) are proactively reaching out to BMC pediatric families. Below are the inclusion criteria that must be met by study participants prior to being enrolled in the cohort: 1. Parent/guardian of at least one child receiving care at BMC Pediatrics 2. Parent/guardian is at least 18 years of age 3. Parent/guardian is comfortable speaking and receiving information in English or Spanish 4. Child received care at the BMC Department of Pediatrics 5. Child's parent/guardian contacted by Project REACH This cohort study has enrolled 117 English or Spanish-speaking food-insecure families of pediatric patients. Changes/Problems:One challenge for our research study team has been staffing changes, which impacted our workflows in recruiting new study participants. Our current fully-trained and staffed team is working to achieve the study targets. Another challenge for the study team was when About Fresh/Fresh Connect made changes to the pre-paid cards and our research study team had to work to inform all study participants of this change so that it would not impact their ability to access the program. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project has allowed new student research assistants to be onboarded. These students have gained knowledge related to food insecurity and health-related social needs and have developed research skills related to participant recruitment, data collection, and data management. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Enrollment for this study is ongoing, study results are pending and have not been disseminated. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Continue study recruitment and enrollment efforts About Fresh will continue to provide Fresh Connect services to study participants for 6 months after the last study participant is recruited Continue to conduct baseline assessments for new study participants and follow-up assessments for those who are already enrolled. Continue to submit monthly reports to the GusNIP NTAE Center Continue to meet with About Fresh and GusNIP NTAE Work with GusNIP NTAE to share data Work with Boston Medical Center to increase referrals to the study
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What was accomplished under these goals?
The last IRB approval for revisions to the study application and protocol was approved on March 16, 2024 the revision was made to add $10 compensation for completing the baseline As of August 31, 2024, 117participants have been enrolled in the study. 117 baseline interviews have been completed as well. As of August 31, 2024, the study research has conducted 83 1-month interviews, 73 2-month interviews, 77 3-month interviews, 75 4-month interviews, 71 5-month interviews, 62 6-month interviews, 68 7-month interviews, 52 8-month interviews, 40 9-month interviews, 42 10-month interviews, 42 11-month interviews, and 27 12-month interviews. As of August 31, 2024, 94 study participants have completed the entire study. Submitted monthly reports to the GusNIP NTAE Center
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Progress 09/01/22 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:This primarily descriptive, prospective cohort of Fresh Connect services is designed to understand food insecurity, COVID infections, and other measures of family well-being during the COVID pandemic. Our efforts targeted families with children who receive care at the Boston Medical Center Department of Pediatrics through Project REACH - an outreach program where callers (who are part of the regular care team) are proactively reaching out to BMC pediatric families. Below are the inclusion criteria that must be met by study participants prior to being enrolled in the cohort: 1. Parent/guardian of at least one child receiving care at BMC Pediatrics 2. Parent/guardian is at least 18 years of age 3. Parent/guardian is comfortable speaking and receiving information in English or Spanish 4. Child received care at the BMC Department of Pediatrics 5. Child's parent/guardian contacted by Project REACH This cohort study will enroll 245 English or Spanish-speaking food-insecure families of pediatric patients. As of July 21, 2023, 93 study participants have been enrolled in this cohort study. Changes/Problems:The research study team has learned to recruit and enroll potential study participants remotely. This can be challenging given that there is still a mix of work schedules for potential study participants as well as our own research study team has changes in availability due to time differences and other ongoing projects. Another major challenge has been obtaining referrals from the Pediatric clinic. While this issue was found to be an IT issue and was recently resolved, this impacted the research study team's ability to get in touch with potential study participants. Additionally, due to changes that About Fresh's Fresh Connect made to the card used, the research study had to stop recruitment and enrollment for about 3 months, from December 2022 to mid-February 2023. This impacted our ability to enroll new study participants. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project has allowed research assistants to develop their database management and study participant management skills by assisting in training new research assistants. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Enrollment for this study is ongoing, study results are pending and have not been disseminated. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Continue study recruitment and enrollment efforts About Fresh will continue to provide Fresh Connect services to study participants for 6 months after the last study participant is recruited Continue to conduct baseline assessments for new study participants and follow-up assessments for those that are already enrolled. Continue to submit monthly reports to the GusNIP NTAE Center Continue to meet with About Fresh and GusNIP NTAE Work with GusNIP NTAE to share data Work with Boston Medical Center to increase referrals to the study
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Last IRB approval for revisions to the study application and protocol was received on December 9, 2022 As of July 21, 2023, 93 study participants have been enrolled in the study. 93 baseline interviews have been completed as well. As of July 21, 2023, the study research team has conducted 77 1-month interviews, 65 2-month interviews, 61 3-month interviews,56 4 month interviews, 52 5-month interviews, 40 6-month interviews, 40 7-month interviews, 33 8-month interviews,30 9- month interviews, 26 10-month interviews, 29 11-month interviews, and 22 12-month interviews. As of July 31, 2023, 47 study participants will have received 6 months of Fresh Connect. As of July 21, 2023, 29 study participants have completed the entire study. Submitted monthly report to the GusNIP NTAE Center
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:This largely descriptive, prospective cohort of Fresh Connect services is designed to understand food insecurity, COVID infections, and other measures of family wellbeing during the COVID pandemic. Our efforts targeted families with children who receive care at the Boston Medical Center Department of Pediatrics through Project REACH - an outreach program where callers (who are part of the regular care team) are proactively reaching out to BMC pediatric families. Below are the inclusion criteria that must be met by study participants prior to being enrolled in the cohort: Parent/guardian of at least one child receiving care at BMC Pediatrics Parent/guardian is at least 18 years of age Parent/guardian is comfortable speaking and receiving information in English or Spanish Child received care at the BMC Department of Pediatrics Child's parent/guardian contacted by Project REACH This cohorot study will enroll 245 English or Spanish-speaking food-insecure families of pediatiac patients. As of August 11, 2022, 37study participants have been enrolled in this cohort study. Changes/Problems:Our team has learned to manage how to continue recruiting and enrolling participants remotely and during a pandemic. However, this continues to be a challenge. We have had study staff members and their family member that have been impacted with COVID, thus, changing our team's availability. Additionally, we have had changes within our research study team that have impacted our person time but we have attempted to address some of these issues. Another major change that occurred was editing our protocol to reflect the $10 compensation that study participants would receive for completing the Baseline after we were awarded the GusNIP/GusCRR Data Collection Funding Support 2022 grant. As a result we had to set-up a new account through BMC's Clincard office and set-up a protocol to distributing clincards to research study participants. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Research Project Manager met with reserch study team members to train and review study protocol and databases Review data sharing systems with About Fresh How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Enrollment for study is ongoing, study results are pending and have not been disseminated. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Continue study recruitment and enrollment efforts till we reach 245 study participants About Fresh will continue to provide Fresh Connect services to study participants for 6 months after the last study participant is recurited. Continue to conduct baseline assessements for new study participants and follow-up assesements for those enrolled Continue to submit monthly reports to GusNIP NTAE Center Continue to meet with About Fresh and GusNIP NTAE.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Received IRB approval for the revised protocol on July 20, 2022 Research staff trainined reasearch team on study protocols and activities Research team launched study recruitment efforts in April 2022 As of August 11, 2022, we have enrolled 37total study participants and conducted 37baseline assesments About Fresh began providing Fresh Connect servcies to study participants on April 26, 2022 As of July 25, 2022, we have conducted 20 1-month interviews, 10 2-month interviews, and 3 3-month interviews Submitted monthly reports to GusNIP NTAE Center.
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