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Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP) Study

Northwestern University · with National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) · NCT07729436

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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
300
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
August 20, 2026
Record last updated
September 4, 2026

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What the study is about

This study will evaluate a digital nudge intervention, Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP), in the online food pantries of three large charitable food organizations. The study will use a hybrid effectiveness-implementation design, meaning it will evaluate whether the intervention works and how it can best be rolled out in an online food pantry setting. Intervention effectiveness will be evaluated using an interrupted time series analysis to identify changes in how healthy foods ordered by shoppers are (primary outcome) by comparing food ordering data over time before and after HOAP is introduced. The study will also evaluate the possibility of collecting dietary and clinical outcomes in a small subgroup of online pantry shoppers over time comparing both in-person and at-home approaches.

Being studied: Behavioral economics-based Healthy Options At Pantries (HOAP) digital nudge intervention

Conditions: Food Choice; Implementation Science; Food Insecurity; Diet, Healthy; Behavioral Economics

Eligibility criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • Adults age 18 years or older
  • Speak English or Spanish
  • Access to a smartphone
  • Have ordered from the online food pantry at least half of the available times over the past 6 pantry eligible periods (for example, at least 3 times in the past 6 weeks for online food pantries that allow weekly ordering or at least 3 times in the past 6 months for online food pantries that allow monthly ordering), during the 6-month period prior to implementation of the HOAP program (i.e., months -6 to -1)
  • Plan to continue ordering from the online food pantry for the next 6 months

Exclusion Criteria

  • Weigh more than 300 pounds
  • Have a pacemaker, defibrillator, or other cardiac implant
  • Plan to move out of metro Chicago in the next 6 months

Recruiting US locations

  • Northwestern University

    Chicago, IL 60611

    Site contact: Emily Research Study Coordinator, MS · 312-503-4917 · emily.romero@northwestern.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Emily Research Study Coordinator, MS · 312-503-4917 · emily.romero@northwestern.edu
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