RecruitingNot Applicable

Medically Tailored Meals for Kids

United States30 participantsStarted 2025-11-25

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this project is to learn whether an intervention that provides households with home-delivered healthy, frozen meals tailored to illness related conditions for 12 weeks during a child's treatment for serious illness is feasible and acceptable to the child and parent mainly responsible for the child's care.

Who can participate

Age range12 Years – 99 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: Eligible children (n=15) will: * be under the care of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology * have completed at least one cycle of cancer chemotherapy that included an agent known to cause alterations in taste, * expect to undergo at least two more cycles, * be aged 12-17.9 years * communicate in English or Spanish. Eligible adults (n=15) will: * be the primary parental caregiver of a study-eligible child, * be aged 18 years or older * communicate in English or Spanish. Exclusion Criteria: * none if inclusion criteria are met

What they're measuring

Parent-reported feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness and accessibility of MTM-Kids

Timeframe: Baseline and 12 weeks

Adolescent-reported acceptability and appropriateness of MTM-Kids

Timeframe: Baseline and 12 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06814795

SponsorUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2027-06

Contact for this trial

Sheila J. Santacroce, PhD

(984) 974-0000 sheila.santacroce@unc.edu

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