Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Symptoms and General Pathology

All Conditions

Rare Diseases

Obesity

Chronic Disease

Disease Attributes

Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease

Participants randomized to the Community Garden Intervention Group will receive the garden intervention. Participants will be assigned a plot for one season and will receive a standard package of services and amenities to support participation in the community garden.

Participants randomized to the Wait List Control Group will remain on community gardening waiting lists and will not receive the garden intervention.

The investigators will recruit prospective adult gardeners who have not been gardening for the past two years and who are listed on Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) wait lists. Individuals randomized to the garden intervention will receive a standardized garden resource package, which includes the following:

1. A garden plot in a Denver Urban Garden
2. Seeds and plant starts
3. Introductory gardening workshop
4. Social events including garden-specific events and garden mentoring.

The Wait List Control group will remain on the community gardening wait lists and will not receive these resources.

Duration of the intervention is 1 year.

Community Garden Intervention

Jill S Litt, PhD

The investigators previous studies show that community gardening is associated with reduction of key health behaviors for cancer prevention in diverse populations. Community gardeners eat more fruits and vegetables per day, are more physically active, and are more likely to avoid age-associated increase in body mass index (BMI). The effect is partially explained by the finding that gardeners are more socially involved, and feel more social support than non-gardeners.

The investigators propose a randomized controlled trial to determine whether community gardening improves cancer-preventive behaviors among a multi-ethnic, low-income adult population and elucidate the pathways that shape cancer-preventive behaviors. A randomized controlled trial is needed to demonstrate that the observed behavioral differences are due to the effect of gardening as an intervention rather than self-selection by gardeners.

Community Activation for Prevention (CAPs): A Study of Community Gardening

Community Activation for Prevention (CAPs): A Randomized Controlled Trial of Community Gardening

The investigators will store all Individual Participant Data in a HIPPA compliant database separate from the study database. All analysis will be conducted on an analytic data set, stripped of indirect and direct identifiers.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Community Activation for Prevention (CAPs): A Study of Community Gardening	NCT03089177	Cancer Obesity Lifestyle, Sede... Physical Activi... Health Behavior Chronic Disease Diet Modificati...	Community Garde...	18 Years -	University of Colorado, Boulder
Community Activation for Prevention (CAPs): A Study of Community Gardening	NCT03089177	Cancer Obesity Lifestyle, Sede... Physical Activi... Health Behavior Chronic Disease Diet Modificati...	Community Garde...	18 Years -	University of Colorado, Boulder

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