{"doi":"10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.107455","title":"Engaging Latina Females and Community Partners to Pilot Test and Optimize Medically Supportive Groceries","abstract":"Background Food insecurity and diet-related chronic conditions disproportionately affect Latina women. Food is Medicine (FIM) is increasingly recognized for its role in addressing the dual challenge of food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases. However, there is minimal evidence to guide FIM practice for Latina women. Objective To engage Latina women and community partners to test the acceptability, implementation feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of medically supportive groceries. Methods In partnership with a Federally Qualified Health Center and community partners, Latina women at risk for diet-related chronic disease who screened positive for food insecurity ( n =25) received 8 weekly home deliveries of medically supportive groceries. Participants completed semi-structured interviews, as well as surveys, at baseline and eight weeks follow-up. Interview transcripts were coded using inductive thematic analysis. Changes in food security and dietary intake were assessed using pair sample t-test and McNemar's χ 2 test. Results Women had a mean age of 52 years (34-73 years old), with 84% indicating a household income below the federal poverty line, and 77% had children at home. Participants were recruited within 4 weeks and achieved 100% success rate of delivering food. Interview themes included cultural acceptability and satisfaction, individual and household benefits of participation, facilitators for optimal use, and barriers. At follow-up, 59% reported food insecurity compared to 92% at baseline (p=.016). Participants reported comparable levels of daily fruit and vegetable intake at baseline and follow up (p=0.7). Conclusions Findings demonstrated that medically supportive groceries are feasible and acceptable for Latina women with diet-related chronic conditions and support comprehensive FIM interventions in diverse populations.","journal":"Current Developments in Nutrition","year":2025,"id":565193,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9627,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1468955,"name":"Yessica Martinez Mulet","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939391,"name":"Wei‐Ting Chen","orcid":"0000-0002-9292-0933","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":319986,"name":"Marcela D. Radtke","orcid":"0000-0003-2045-8492","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1468697,"name":"Lan Xiao","orcid":"0000-0001-7927-4896","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":249442,"name":"Lisa G. Rosas","orcid":"0000-0003-4053-7972","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":443124,"name":"Patricia Rodríguez Espinosa","orcid":"0000-0002-7578-305X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":24,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:56:28.709936Z","pmid":"40503171","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}