Assessing health impacts of home food gardens with Wind River Indian Reservation families: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This community-based participatory research, Growing Resilience, will be the first full-scale randomised controlled trial we have identified that is designed to evaluate impacts of home gardening on family health. It is based on observational studies suggesting home food gardening has myriad health benefits, Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR) families' interest in home gardening and the need to end Native American health disparities with empowering, appropriate and effective health interventions.

Methods and analysis

A total of 100 Native American families in WRIR who have not gardened recently but want to garden will be randomly allocated (1:1) to intervention (receiving 2 years of support designing, installing and maintaining a home food garden of at

SUBMITTER: Porter CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500094 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature