Food Is Medicine Shared Medical Appointments for Weight Management: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Grantee: Duke University

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $77,149

Report Status: In Process

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Project Summary: The Duke University Health System Food Is Medicine Shared Medical Appointments for Weight Management pilot trial will randomize patients with obesity to the Full Plate Living in-person, four-session shared medical appointment curriculum integrated with two teaching kitchen sessions or to a control virtual, self-guided online Full Plate Living curriculum. Both arms will receive a medically tailored grocery intervention delivered every two weeks during the eight-week study as an incentive for participating and to promote healthy dietary pattern changes. The primary outcomes of this study are intervention feasibility and acceptability perceived by patients and health system staff, based on validated survey-based measures and guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Changes in participant biometric data are exploratory secondary outcomes. The results from this study will demonstrate the feasibility of integrating shared medical appointments with a teaching kitchen component as a reimbursable service at Duke University. This foundational study will provide the evidence base necessary to expand our adapted Full Plate Living shared medical appointment curriculum to a larger, definitive multi-site randomized controlled trial powered to identify improvements in health outcomes such as weight reduction, blood pressure reduction, and glycemic control.