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NCT Number: NCT04283344

Evaluation of Demonstrations to End Childhood Hunger - KY

The 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization provided funding to test innovative strategies to end childhood hunger and food insecurity. Demonstration projects were funded in Chickasaw Nation, Kentucky, Navajo Nation, Nevada, and Virginia. This study focuses on Kentucky.

Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula: (1) a fixed deduction, depending on county of residence, for transportation costs for six round trips to the grocery store per month; and (2) an earnings deduction equal to 10 percent of earned income for households with at least one employed household member. Households in the control group continued to receive their regular monthly SNAP benefit amounts.

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Key information

Conditions

Food Insecurity Among Children

Age range

Up to 17 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

Objective: To reduce child food insecurity in rural households by raising Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to offset higher transportation costs and further strengthen SNAP work incentives.

Target Population: SNAP households with: (1) positive net income, (2) at least one child under the age of 18 by the end of the demonstration period, and (3) living in 17 geographically isolated and poor counties in eastern Kentucky.

Intervention: Households were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group. Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula: (1) a fixed deduction, depending on county of residence, for transportation costs for six round trips to the grocery store per month; and (2) an earnings deduction equal to 10 percent of earned income for households with at least one employed household member. Households in the control group continued to receive their regular monthly SNAP benefit amounts.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • SNAP households with: (1) positive net income, (2) at least one child under the age of 18 by the end of the demonstration period, and (3) living in 17 geographically isolated and poor counties in eastern Kentucky.

Exclusion criteria

-

Treatment and study plan

KY Ticket to Healthy Food Benefits

Other

Households in the treatment group received an extra monthly SNAP benefit amount through two new intervention-related deductions to the SNAP benefit formula

Primary outcomes

  1. Food Insecurity among Children

    Time frame: 30 days

    Measured by the United States Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM).

    Affirming 2 or more out of the 8 child-level items in the HFSSM. Higher scores generally indicates worsening food insecurity.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Very Low Food Insecurity among Children

    Time frame: 30 days

    Measured by the United States Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM).

    Affirming 5 or more out of the 8 child-level items in the HFSSM. Higher scores generally indicates worsening food insecurity.

  2. Food Insecurity among Adults

    Time frame: 30 days

    Measured by the United States Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM).

    Affirming 3 or more out of the 10 adult-level items in the HFSSM. Higher scores generally indicates worsening food insecurity.

  3. Household Food Insecurity

    Time frame: 30 days

    Measured by the United States Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM).

    Affirming 3 or more out of the 18 items in the HFSSM. Higher scores generally indicates worsening food insecurity.

  4. Food Expenditures

    Time frame: 30 days

    Total amount of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and out-of-pocket food purchases in dollars.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Fed

Collaborators

  • Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Registry information

Official study title

Evaluation of Demonstrations to End Childhood Hunger - Kentucky

Acronym: EDECHKY

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2018
First posted
Feb 25, 2020
Registry last updated
Feb 25, 2020

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