Using Point-of-Purchase Data To Evaluate Local WIC Nutrition Education Interventions

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英文名称：

Using Point-of-Purchase Data To Evaluate Local WIC Nutrition Education Interventions

作者：

Loren Bell""url":0; Stacy Gleason""url":0;

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/api/publications/v1.0?page=40&items_per_page=20&sort_by=releaseDate&sort_order=DESC&series=AP%2CCCR%2CEB%2CEIB%2CERR%2CTB

关键词：

WIC;  nutrition education;  point-of-purchase data;  Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program;  FANRP; 

年份：

2007

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

45

语种：

English

摘要：

The effect of nutrition education\u2014an important component of many Federal Food Assistance programs\u2014on partici-pants’ food consumption behavior is difficult to ascertain. This study finds that combining point-of-purchase data with State data on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a feasi-ble method to assess behavioral changes in WIC participants. The major obstacle to using these data as a practical method of evaluating WIC participant food-purchasing behaviors is the recruitment of enough stores to allow for a representative sample of WIC participants to be included. The study found that nutrition education intervention directed at encouraging the purchase of 1-percent and skim milk, as well as low-fat cheese, did not significantly influence purchasing patterns among WIC participants.This study was conducted by Health Systems Research, Inc., under a cooperative research contract with USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) Food and Nutrition Assistance Research Program (FANRP): contract number 43-3AEM-1-80078 (ERS project representative: Elise Golan). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of ERS or USDA.