Recruiting

Healthy Food Access

Sponsor:

North Carolina State University

Code:

NCT07218978

Conditions

Diet Interventions

Food Security

Nutrition Security

Fruit and Vegetable Intake

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Mobile Market Voucher Outcomes Study

Study Details

Brief summary:

Increasing access to healthy foods is crucial to combating chronic disease in rural communities. The Ripe for Revival mobile market, a non-profit eastern NC-based mobile market, seeks to improve healthy food access among those at greatest risk of food insecurity and poor health. By implementing vouchers at the mobile market, this study will help make healthy food affordable and accessible without stigma. This project is poised to improve diet and health among rural residents in eight counties and promote sustainable local food systems in North Carolina.

Conditions

Diet Interventions

Food Security

Nutrition Security

Fruit and Vegetable Intake

Study ID

NCT07218978

Start date

May 1, 2026

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Mar 31, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 31, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • Communicates fluently in English or Spanish
  • An active participant in an NC Cooperative Extension program May 2026 - March 2028
  • At risk of food insecurity
  • Willing to shop at or visit a Ripe for Revival mobile produce market
  • Willing to use the provided $20 monthly voucher to shop at the Ripe for Revival mobile produce market
  • Works or lives in a North Carolina county where this study is being conducted, including Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, Jones, Lenoir, Northampton, Warren, or Washington

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals who do not meet the inclusion criteria above cannot participate

Study Design

Enrollment

150 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Voucher Recipients

Voucher participants will be referred by Extension professionals who serve lower-resourced individuals during routine programs. Participants who consent to the study will receive a $20 voucher each month for 3 months to redeem at the mobile market in their county.

Interventions

Mobile Market Voucher Outcomes Study

Voucher participants will be referred by Extension professionals who serve lower-resourced individuals during routine programs (i.e., NC Extension programs such as Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). After receiving the referrals from Extension professionals, a member of the research team will contact the referred participant to provide a $20 monthly voucher each month for three months for use at the mobile market. Trained researchers will collect data at baseline (when a voucher is issued), at \~4 weeks (4-6 weeks, 2nd voucher), 8 weeks (8-10 weeks, 3rd voucher), and 12-16 weeks (post-program) at the NC Cooperative Extension office. FV intake will be measured by skin carotenoid scan. Researchers will obtain height (baseline), weight, and blood pressure at each data collection time point. Survey measures will include the secondary outcomes using adapted versions of validated instruments, with questions on demographics and food and nutrition security status.

Primary outcome measure

  • Skin Carotenoids [ Time Frame: Enrollment/baseline (week 0), 4-6 weeks, 8-10 weeks, and at 12-16 weeks ]
  • Fruit and vegetable intake [ Time Frame: Enrollment/baseline (week 0), 4-6 weeks, 8-10 weeks, and at 12-16 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Basheerah Enahora, PhD, RDN, LDN

9195159125benahor@ncsu.edu

Locations

NC State University

Recruiting

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 27607

Contacts

Basheerah Enahora, PhD

9195159125benahor@ncsu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Basheerah Enahora, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

North Carolina State University

Last update posted

Jul 30, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

  • Mobile market
  • Lower-income
  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake
  • Quasi-Experimental
  • Vouchers
  • Nutrition Incentives

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by North Carolina State University on 2026-07-30.