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Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness
Led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ยท Updated on 2025-12-17
537
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
180 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
J
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lead Sponsor
N
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness. The investigators will develop, implement, and evaluate the Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS), a mobile application to address these concerns under normal and emergency operations, and assess its impact on 20 Baltimore food pantries, and on the healthiness of foods received by 360 food pantry clients using a randomized controlled trial design. If successful, the tested and refined app will support local food assistance programs throughout the United States.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Regular client of the food pantry, visiting or ordering at least once per month for the past year
- Adult aged 18 years or older
- Willing and able to use a mobile app on a smartphone or other device for electronic food selections and communications
You will not qualify if you...
- Planning to move out of Baltimore within the next 12 months
- Currently pregnant
- Medically or behaviorally at risk as indicated by the food pantry
- No access to a smartphone or other web-enabled device and Wi-Fi
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
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Cara Shipley, BS
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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