Recruiting

Food Support

Sponsor:

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

Code:

NCT07220291

Conditions

Food Insecurity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Food support

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand if monthly food support increases food security in food insecure households. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Does monthly food support increase household food security?
  • Does monthly food support reduce stress, increase dietary diversity, and improve self-reported wellness in recipients?

Researchers will compare households receiving monthly food support to households that do not receive study-related food support. Participants will complete questionnaires regarding food insecurity, stress, wellness, and dietary diversity at baseline and after 3 months.

Conditions

Food Insecurity

Study ID

NCT07220291

Start date

May 20, 2026

Status verified date

May, 2026

Completion date

Sep, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Sep, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Live in a Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta community served by the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation
  • Self-reported need for food support.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Existing food support through Neqkiuryaraq
  • Under 18 years of age
  • Planning to move outside of YK Delta within 4 months

Study Design

Enrollment

45 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Food support

Monthly food box shipped to rural Alaska Native households that include traditional proteins when available (e.g., caribou, salmon) and are pro-rated in value by household size.

no intervention: Wait list control

Households allocated to the wait list arm will receive food support as described in the intervention arm after 3 months.

Interventions

Food support

A monthly box of food shipped to a household that preferentially contains traditional protein such as moose meat or salmon. Additional food items included to compliment the protein for preparing meals, such as rice or canned vegetables. The monthly value of the food box contents will be $100, $200, or $250 depending on household size (<5 people, 5-10 people, and >10 people). Food support will be provided for 3 months prior to assessing outcomes. Households will continue to receive food support in both arms (intervention and wait list) after the study ends.

Primary outcome measure

  • Food security [ Time Frame: Assessed at baseline and after 3 months of food support or wait list condition ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation

Recruiting

Bethel, Alaska, United States, 99559

Contacts

Christine Desnoyers, MBA

800-478-3321Christine_Desnoyers@ykhc.org

More Information

Sponsor

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

Last update posted

May 28, 2026

Last verified

May, 2026

Keywords

  • Alaska Native
  • rural
  • food security
  • food sovereignty
  • food support

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on 2026-05-28.