Giving Healthy Meal Kits and Cooking Lessons to Rural Families With Food Insecurity.

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing healthy meal kits to food insecure families can help lessen the social and emotional impacts of food insecurity on kids and their caregivers in rural Maine. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Is receiving healthy meal kits delivered to homes feasible and acceptable to rural Maine families? 2. Does receiving meal kits (along with an app to help learn how to cook the food) improve food insecurity and diet quality in rural Maine families? 3. Does receiving meal kits (along with an app to help learn how to cook the food) improve family function in rural Maine families? We will look at caregivers' stress, family conflict, household chaos, and child emotional-behavioral symptoms. Participants will: 1. Recieve and prepare a dietitian-designed meal kit with 10 meals per week for 4 weeks. 2. Receive free culinary medicine education via an app that they will continue to have access to after the study ends. 3. Complete a 1-1.5 hour virtual visit at the beginning of and end of the study.

NCT Number	NCT06869993
Lead Sponsor	MaineHealth
Conditions	Food Insecurity, Food Insecurity Among Children, Social Emotional Wellness, Caregiver Stress, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Mental Health, Family Function, Family Functioning +2 more
Enrollment	40 participants
Start Date	2025-04-14
Primary Completion	2025-07-08 (estimated)
Study Completion	2025-07-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-02-19