This $690,147 federal Project Grant award was made by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports a randomized trial evaluating the effects of in-hospital food support and post-discharge food assistance interventions for low-income families of hospitalized children.
The primary objectives are to determine the impact of these interventions on outcomes such as parental hunger, presence during hospitalization, post-discharge healthcare utilization, and return to normal routines. The study is being conducted by Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, with involvement from parent co-investigators and a stakeholder advisory board. The project will use a stepped-wedge randomized design to assess the in-hospital intervention and a nested randomized trial for the post-discharge food support.
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