Food Insecurity Interventions to Improve Blood Pressure: The Healthy Food First Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Food insecurity is associated with worse blood pressure control, but the optimal design for a food insecurity intervention to improve blood pressure is unknown.

Objective

To inform food insecurity intervention design by comparing different intervention elements: type of food resources provided, whether to offer lifestyle counseling, and intervention duration.

Design, setting, and participants

A 2 × 2 × 2 factorial comparative effectiveness randomized clinical trial was carried out including adults with hypertension and systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 130 mm Hg or higher, who spoke English or Spanish, and reported food insecurity in 2 clinical networks across 364 clinical sites in North Carolina.

Interventions

Food resources included healthy food sub

SUBMITTER: Berkowitz SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519410 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature