ArticleHealth promotion perspectives2016
Healthy Foods, Healthy Families: combining incentives and exposure interventions at urban farmers' markets to improve nutrition among recipients of US federal food assistance.
Article in Health promotion perspectives, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05939349 (A Prescription for Health Equity), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Prescription for Health Equity: A Healthcare Provider-based Produce Prescription Program for People With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Evaluation of Economic and Health Outcomes Associated With Food Taxes and Subsidies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- A Century of Influences on Parental Feeding in America.Current nutrition reports · 2023Review
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- Community-based fruit and vegetable prescription programs: a scoping review.Journal of nutritional science · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of an Integrated Health Promotion Program for a low-income urban population: Findings and lessons learned.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2021Article
- The effect of a fresh produce incentive paired with cooking and nutrition education on healthy eating in low-income households: a pilot study.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- A Qualitative Evaluation of Double Up Food Bucks Farmers' Market Incentive Program Access.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2020Article
- Participation in a Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program for Pediatric Patients is Positively Associated with Farmers' Market Shopping.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Programs for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participants: A Scoping Review of Program Structure.Nutrients · 2020Article
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- Caregiver Experiences With an Innovative Farmers' Market Incentive Program for Children in Flint, Michigan.Global pediatric health · 2019Article
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- Nutrition and the Plastic Surgeon: Possible Interventions and Practice Considerations.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2018Article
- A Community-Based Marketing Campaign at Farmers Markets to Encourage Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Rural Counties With High Rates of Obesity, Kentucky, 2015-2016.Preventing chronic disease · 2017Article
- Evaluation of an Educational Initiative to Promote Shopping at Farmers' Markets Among the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Participants in New York City.Journal of community health · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealthy Foods, Healthy Families (HFHF) is a fruit and vegetable (F&V) exposure/incentive program implemented at farmers' markets in low-income neighborhoods, targeting families receiving US federal food assistance. We examined program effects on participants' diet and associations between attendance, demographics and dietary change.
methodsExposure activities included F&V tastings and cooking demonstrations. Incentives included 40% F&V bonus for electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card users and $20 for use purchasing F&V at every third market visit. Self-report surveys measuring nutritional behaviors/literacy were administered to participants upon enrollment (n = 425, 46.2% Hispanic, 94.8%female). Participants were sampled for follow-up at markets during mid-season (n = 186) and at season end (n = 146). Attendance was tracked over 16 weeks.
resultsParticipants post-intervention reported significantly higher vegetable consumption(P = 0.005) and lower soda consumption (P = 0.005). Participants reporting largest F&V increases attended the market 6-8 times and received $40 in incentives. No change in food assistance spent on F&V (P = 0.94); 70% reported significant increases in family consumption of F&V,indicating subsidies increased overall F&V purchasing. Participants reported exposure activities and incentives similarly affected program attendance.
conclusionInterventions combining exposure activities and modest financial incentives at farmers' markets in low-income neighborhoods show strong potential to improve diet quality of families receiving federal food assistance.
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