Examining the Feasibility and Impact of a Clinic-based Food Farmacy and Digital Culinary Medicine Program Among Cancer Survivors Treated in a Safety Net Hospital

Primary Objective:

Determine the feasibility of study recruitment goal, intervention adherence rate, attrition rate, data completion rate, and program satisfaction rate.

Secondary Objective:

Assess the preliminary efficacy of the digital culinary medicine intervention to improve diet quality, food security, quality of life, and downstream biological indicators of cardiometabolic health from baseline to post-intervention, as well as from baseline to 6 month follow up, among food insecure cancer survivors.

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer survivors treated at the MD Anderson Oncology Program at LBJ Hospital over 18 years of age.
• Screen positive for food insecurity using the 2 question clinic-screener (Hunger Vital Signs)
• Receive referral to the LBJ Food Farmacy.
• Are within the first 5 years off of acute cancer treatment.
• Self-report having internet access.
• Self-report as being able to speak and read English or Spanish.
• Willing to complete study assessments.

Exclusion criteria

• Unwilling or unable to complete study assessments
• Anyone under 18 years of age
• Self-report to not speak or read English or Spanish