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Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · with National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Oakland University · NCT05880004

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
537
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
June 14, 2023
Record last updated
December 17, 2025

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness. The investigators will develop, implement, and evaluate the Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS), a mobile application to address these concerns under normal and emergency operations, and assess its impact on 20 Baltimore food pantries, and on the healthiness of foods received by 360 food pantry clients using a randomized controlled trial design. If successful, the tested and refined app will support local food assistance programs throughout the United States.

Being studied: Support Application for Food PAntrieS (SAFPAS) - A mobile app that helps food pantries recruit, train and schedule volunteers, offer choice safely, and provides multilevel communications

Conditions: Improving Healthy Food Access in Food Insecurity Populations in Normal and Emergency Situations

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Regular client of the food pantry (visit food pantry/order from one or more participating food pantries at least 1 time/month), for the past year, identified by food pantry personnel Adult (18 years or older)
  • Willing and able to use a mobile app through a smart phone (or other device) for making electronic Choice (echoice) selections and engaging in other communications

Exclusion Criteria

  • Anticipate moving out of Baltimore in the next 12 months (for pilot study)
  • Pregnant (due to changes in diet, weight and body composition)
  • Medically or behaviorally at risk as indicated by the food pantry
  • No access to a smart phone or other web-enabled device and Wi-Fi

Recruiting US locations

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, MD 21205

    Site contact: Joel Gittelsohn, PhD · 410-955-3927 · jgittel1@jhu.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Cara Shipley, BS · (410)502-6961 · cshiple9@jhu.edu
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