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Trial reportPublic health nutrition2017

Examining the feasibility of implementing behavioural economics strategies that encourage home dinner vegetable intake among low-income children.

Tashara M Leak, Alison Swenson, Aaron Rendahl, Zata Vickers, Elton Mykerezi, Joseph P Redden, Traci Mann, Marla Reicks

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Repeated exposure and conditioning strategies for increasing vegetable liking and intake: systematic review and meta-analyses of the published literature.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018
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Facilitators and barriers to preparing and offering whole grains to children diagnosed with prediabetes: qualitative interviews with low-income caregivers.BMC public health · 2021
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Youth Willingness to Purchase Whole Grain Snack Packs from New York City Corner Stores Participating in a Healthy Retail Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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An in-home intervention of parent-implemented strategies to increase child vegetable intake: results from a non-randomized cluster-allocated community trial.BMC public health · 2019
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Tashara M Leak1School of Public Health,University of California,50 University Hall,#7360,Berkeley,CA 94720,USA.

Alison Swenson2Department of Food Science and Nutrition,University of Minnesota,Saint Paul,MN,USA.

Aaron Rendahl3School of Statistics,University of Minnesota,Saint Paul,MN,USA.

Zata Vickers2Department of Food Science and Nutrition,University of Minnesota,Saint Paul,MN,USA.

Elton Mykerezi4Department of Applied Economics,University of Minnesota,Saint Paul,MN,USA.

Joseph P Redden5Carlson School of Management,University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA.

Traci Mann6Department of Psychology,University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA.

Marla Reicks2Department of Food Science and Nutrition,University of Minnesota,Saint Paul,MN,USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6726-9408

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo examine the feasibility of implementing nine behavioural economics-informed strategies, or 'nudges', that aimed to encourage home dinner vegetable intake among low-income children.

designCaregivers were assigned six of nine strategies and implemented one new strategy per week (i.e. 6 weeks) during three dinner meals. Caregivers recorded child dinner vegetable intake on the nights of strategy implementation and rated the level of difficulty for assigned strategies. Baseline data on home vegetable availability and child vegetable liking were collected to assess overall strategy feasibility.

settingParticipants' homes in a large Midwestern metropolitan area, USA. SUBJECTS: Low-income caregiver/child (aged 9-12 years) dyads (n 39).

resultsPairwise comparisons showed that child dinner vegetable intake for the strategy 'Serve at least two vegetables with dinner meals' was greater than intake for each of two other strategies: 'Pair vegetables with other foods the child likes' and 'Eat dinner together with an adult(s) modelling vegetable consumption'. Overall, caregivers' mean rating of difficulty for implementing strategies was 2·6 (1='not difficult', 10='very difficult'). Households had a mean of ten different types of vegetables available. Children reported a rating ≥5 for seventeen types of vegetable on a labelled hedonic scale (1='hate it', 5-6='it's okay', 10='like it a lot').

conclusionsBehavioural economics-informed strategies are feasible to implement during dinner meals, with some strategies differing by how much they influence vegetable intake among low-income children in the home.

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Choice BehaviorFood PreferencesHealth BehaviorSocioeconomic FactorsChildDietFamily CharacteristicsFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMealsVegetablesBehavioural economicsChildrenHome settingLow-incomeVegetables

Identifiers

PMID28294936

DOI10.1017/S1368980017000131

PMCPMC10261397

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