N/A
N=30
Southwest Harvest for Health Vegetable Gardening Intervention
Cancer Survivor
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04251299 ↗Enrolled (actual)
30
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Mar 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Feasibility of the Intervention — 100; 100; 89; 90 percentage of participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- home-based, mentored vegetable gardening program (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 50+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
- Primary completion
- Dec 2020
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Feasibility of the Intervention |
100; 100; 89; 90 | — |
| SECONDARY Pre-post Change in Vegetable and Fruit Intake |
1.2 | — |
| SECONDARY Pre-post Change in Objectively Measured Physical Activity |
-1.1; -4.2 | — |
| SECONDARY Pre-post Change in Sleep Quality |
-0.4; -0.2 | — |
| SECONDARY Pre-post Change in Physical Function |
0.0 | — |
| SECONDARY Pre-post Change in Physical Performance |
— | — |
Summary
"Harvest for Health" is a home-based vegetable gardening intervention that pairs cancer survivors with certified master gardeners (MGs) from the Cooperative Extension System, the education and outreach arm of land-grant universities nationwide.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Age 50 years or older
- Residing in Bernalillo or Sandoval County, New Mexico
- Diagnosed with an invasive cancer (any type)
- Completed primary treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy)(note: endocrine therapy is allowed)
- Able to read, speak, and understand English (The future larger trial will include Spanish-Speaking participants)
- Not told by a physician to limit physical activity and no pre-existing medical condition(s) that would preclude home gardening, e.g., severe orthopedic conditions, hip or knee replacement surgery within 6 months), end-stage renal disease, paralysis, dementia, blindness, unstable angina, untreated stage 3 hypertension, or recent history of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or pulmonary conditions that required oxygen or hospitalization within 6 months.
- Currently not adhering to the recommended number of fruit and vegetable servings per day (consuming fewer than 5 servings of vegetables and fruits/day and not meeting the recommended guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (< 150 minutes/week)
- Reside in a location that can accommodate a 4' x 8' raised garden bed or 4 (29" x 14") garden containers, or adequate (at least 4 hours) of sunlight per day and have access to running water
- No existing or recent (within the past year) experience with vegetable gardening
- Able to participate in the 10-month intervention (all three seasonal gardens; from mid-February through early November 2020)
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04251299). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.