Fresh produce prescription aims to cut hospital visits for heart failure patients
NCT ID NCT07101289
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether giving heart failure patients a debit card to buy fruits, vegetables, and legumes, along with optional health coaching, can reduce emergency visits, hospital stays, and deaths. About 900 adults with congestive heart failure who have had a recent hospital stay or ED visit and are at risk of food insecurity will participate. The goal is to see if better nutrition and support can improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- produce prescription (debit card for fruits, vegetables, legumes) and behavioral coaching
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that providing fresh produce and coaching helps heart failure patients stay healthier and avoid hospital visits.
- What could go wrong
- This is a pragmatic trial testing a food program, not a new drug. Results may vary based on patient adherence and may not apply to all heart failure patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 900 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 or older * Diagnosis of CHF regardless of ejection fraction AND * Hospitalization or ED visit within the past 12 months AND * At risk of food insecurity as defined by one of the following: screened positive for financial instability (medium risk and up) or food insecurity in the past 12 months minimum OR a Medicaid or dual eligible enrollee * English as preferred language * Valid email address (for virtual health coaching intervention) * NC mailing address Exclusion Criteria: * History of dialysis or end stage renal disease OR * History of LVAD or heart transplant.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Duke Health
RECRUITINGDurham, North Carolina, 27701, United States
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