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Medically Tailored Meals for Kids

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Started2025-11-25
Est. completion2027-06
Eligibility
Age12 Years – 99 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations1 site
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NCT06814795

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.

Eligibility

Age: 12 Years – 99 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
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

Conditions2

CancerPediatric Cancer

Locations1 site

North Carolina Basnight Cancer Hospital
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599
Sheila J. Santacroce, PhD984-974-0000sheila.santacroce@unc.edu

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