Fruit and Vegetable ConsumptionNCT06455215
The Community Garden Health Block
A study testing Community garden activities in people with Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, run by University of Arkansas at 1 site in United States.
Trial 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. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 95 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
- What is being tested?
- Community garden activities
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 138 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 15 Jul 2025to 1 Mar 2028
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 95 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 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);
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- written informed consent;
- working phone, home address, and email;
- 10) willingness to complete all survey assessments.
Who cannot join
- Does not live within 1 mile radius of a participating garden.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205
Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, 301-802-7735, pfagan@uams.edu
Elizabeth Taylor, BA, 501-526-6689, btaylor@uams.edu
About this study
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.
Read the detailed description
Food insecurity is a major cause of chronic diseases and is highest in the nation in Arkansas. Evidence shows that community gardens and healthy cooking demonstration can reduce food insecurity by 1) increasing access to healthy foods and 2) promoting healthy food consumption. Community garden participation is one factor that can influence healthy food consumption such as fruit and vegetable intake. 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. 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. Four of the gardens will be randomized to the intervention group and three to the delayed intervention group. To assess the effects of the intervention, participants will receive a baseline, 8-week, and 6-month survey. Other measures that we will examine include food security; sociodemographics; physical activity; life satisfaction; perceived stress; neighborhood collective efficacy; self-efficacy; individual level social determinants of health; community engagement; and knowledge, attitudes, and satisfaction related to gardening and cooking.
- Conditions
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
- Being tested
- Community garden activities
- Keywords
- food security, community gardens, fruit/vegetable consumption
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Community garden activitiesBehavioural
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.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Receives: 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. Receives: Behavioral: Community garden activities |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
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
Measured: From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention
Secondary outcomes (1)
Access to healthy foods
We will use the the Perceived Availability of the Healthy Food Scale. Participants will be asked to think of the neighborhood area (1 mile radius) and the extent to which they feel that the foods are of high quality, available, and are low fat.
Measured: From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted12 Jun 2024
- Study start15 Jul 2025
- Primary completion1 Jul 2027 (estimated)
- Study completion1 Mar 2028 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Fruit and Vegetable ConsumptionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of ArkansasThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- 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.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 138 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Arkansas
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, Principal investigator, UAMS
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06455215
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 297248
- Other IDs
- OT2HL156812
- Status last verified
- Jun 2026
- First submitted
- 6 Jun 2024
- Last updated
- 23 Jun 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: To facilitate data use, the research projects will use standard processing and documentation protocols adopted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for data formats and dictionaries as well as for variable names, descriptions, and labels. We will share all variable de-identified data following the publication of our final results.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 23 Jun 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Community Garden Health Block
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06455215
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 297248
- Conditions
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
- Keywords
- food security, community gardens, fruit/vegetable consumption
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 138 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of ArkansasUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Study start
- 15 Jul 2025 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Jul 2027 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 1 Mar 2028 (estimated)
- First posted
- 12 Jun 2024 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
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.
Detailed description
Food insecurity is a major cause of chronic diseases and is highest in the nation in Arkansas. Evidence shows that community gardens and healthy cooking demonstration can reduce food insecurity by 1) increasing access to healthy foods and 2) promoting healthy food consumption. Community garden participation is one factor that can influence healthy food consumption such as fruit and vegetable intake. 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. 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. Four of the gardens will be randomized to the intervention group and three to the delayed intervention group. To assess the effects of the intervention, participants will receive a baseline, 8-week, and 6-month survey. Other measures that we will examine include food security; sociodemographics; physical activity; life satisfaction; perceived stress; neighborhood collective efficacy; self-efficacy; individual level social determinants of health; community engagement; and knowledge, attitudes, and satisfaction related to gardening and cooking.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- 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.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Garden intervention | Experimental | Behavioral: Community garden activitiesThe 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. |
| Delayed intervention | Active comparator | Behavioral: Community garden activitiesThe 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. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 95 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (9 listed)
- 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;
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Does not live within 1 mile radius of a participating garden.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Community garden activitiesThe 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. | Behavioural | Delayed intervention, Garden intervention |
Primary outcome
Fruit and vegetable intake
Time frame: From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention
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
1 secondary outcome
Access to healthy foods
Time frame: From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 23 Jun 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. To facilitate data use, the research projects will use standard processing and documentation protocols adopted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for data formats and dictionaries as well as for variable names, descriptions, and labels. We will share all variable de-identified data following the publication of our final results.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH principal investigator
UAMS
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Community garden activities in people with Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, run by University of Arkansas at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 9 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 23 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH (301-802-7735, pfagan@uams.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Fruit and vegetable intake (time frame: From baseline to 8 weeks (end of intervention) and 6-months post intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 23 Jun 2026.