Home-Delivered Healthy Meals for Pediatric Cancer
Medically Tailored Meals for Kids
- Age
- 12 – 99
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Participants needed
- 30 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · Other
This trial is looking for children and their parents to participate in a program that provides healthy, frozen meals during cancer treatment. Families will receive these meals for 12 weeks to see if it helps with the child’s health and nutrition.
You may be able to join if
- I am between 12 and 17.9 years old.
- I have completed at least one cycle of cancer chemotherapy.
- I expect to undergo at least two more cycles of chemotherapy.
- I can communicate in English or Spanish.
- I am under the care of UNC Chapel Hill's Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
- I am the primary parental caregiver of an eligible child.
- I am 18 years or older.
Summarized in plain language from this trial's official eligibility criteria. The full criteria are further down this page — only the research team can confirm whether you qualify.
Think this trial could be right for you?
Answer a few quick questions to see if you may meet the eligibility requirements.
Check Your EligibilityThe 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.
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