Trial reportBMC public health2018
Fruits and vegetables at home (FLAM): a randomized controlled trial of the impact of fruits and vegetables vouchers in children from low-income families in an urban district of France.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02461238 (Etude Fruits et Légumes à la Maison), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Etude Fruits et Légumes à la Maison (FLAM)
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review of fruit and vegetable voucher interventions for pregnant women and families with young children.Public health nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Healthy Food Prescription Programs and their Impact on Dietary Behavior and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Healthy Food Benefit Programs, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, and Food Security.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Effect of Brief Produce Exposure and Unconstrained Grocery Gift Cards on Caregiver Influence on Diet of Elementary Age Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Longitudinal Associations Among Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Sleep Onset Consistency With Body Mass Index z-Score Among Toddlers in Low-income Families.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Trial
- Adoption and Acceptability of a Fruit and Vegetable Subsidy in Low-Income Households in Urban Chile: The Bolsillo Saludable Pilot Feasibility Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Étude de faisabilité du dispositif « Passerelle » couplant transfert monétaire non fléché et orientation sociale destiné à des ménages en situation de précarité en France.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Caregiver-reported barriers to engagement in a paediatric fresh fruit and vegetable prescription programme.Journal of nutritional science · 2024Article
- Community-based fruit and vegetable prescription programs: a scoping review.Journal of nutritional science · 2023Article
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- Influence of pro-obesogenic dietary habits on stress-induced cognitive alterations in healthy adult volunteers.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- Impact of fruits and vegetables vouchers on food insecurity in disadvantaged families from a Paris suburb.BMC nutrition · 2019Article
- Recruitment of precarious families in an interventional study: Lessons from the French "Fruits and vegetables at home" (FLAM) trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2018Article
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10 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundFruits and Vegetables (FV) consumption is considered a marker of social inequalities in health since it is considerably decreased in disadvantaged populations. The main objective of this trial was to evaluate the impact of vouchers for FV purchase on the consumption of FV among children living in disadvantaged families in a French urban district.
methodsThe FLAM study was a controlled randomized intervention trial, performed in Saint-Denis (North suburbs of Paris). The study group (intervention or control) was randomly attributed to parent-child pairs at inclusion. The intervention group received vouchers exchangeable for FV over a 1 year period. Nutritional education through workshops was available for both groups. FV consumption was assessed through face-to-face food frequency questionnaires. Participants who reported eating less than 3.5 FV per day were considered low FV consumers.
resultsA total of 92 parent-child pairs were included, in which 45 were allocated to the intervention group and 47 to the control group. Amongst them, 64 completed the final follow-up questionnaire (30% lost to follow-up). After one year, the proportion of low FV consumers in children was significantly lower in the intervention group (29.4%) compared to the control group (66.7%, p = 0.005). Overall, 82% of the vouchers were used by the families.
conclusionsThis study found a decreased proportion of small consumers in children after 1 year of distribution of FV vouchers compared to the control group. FV vouchers could be an effective lever to increase FV consumption among children from disadvantaged households.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier no. NCT02461238 .
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