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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Putting Knowledge into Practice: Low-Income Women Talk about Food Choice Decisions.

Shelly M Palmer, Simon T Knoblauch, Donna M Winham, Molly B Hiller, Mack C Shelley

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05196763 (Maximizing the Impact of Nutrition Education to Meet the Dietary Quality and Food Security Needs of Children and Parents), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05196763 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Maximizing the Impact of Nutrition Education to Meet the Dietary Quality and Food Security Needs of Children and Parents

TypeinterventionalSponsorPurdue UniversityRan2022 to 2027Enrolled300ConditionsNutrition, Healthy, Hunger, Diet, Healthy, Food HabitsArmsthe Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shelly M PalmerFood Science & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
Simon T KnoblauchFood Science & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
Donna M WinhamFood Science & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3924-2560
Molly B HillerFood Science & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
Mack C ShelleyPolitical Science and Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insights into barriers and facilitators for healthy eating are needed to improve low-income women's diets and to decrease disease risk. The study objectives were to explore women's qualitative perceptions of influences on their food choices such as food security, their knowledge of nutrition-related health risk factors and self-efficacy for diet change, and their dietary intakes in practice. Thirty-six women, aged 19-50, who were eligible to receive income-based assistance were recruited in central Iowa. Focus group discussions on defining healthy foods, influences on food choice, and nutrition information sources were analyzed using a socioecological model framework. Demographics, nutrient intake estimates, food security status, health behaviors, and self-efficacy for nutrition behavior change were collected by survey. Most participants were White (61%), single (69%), food insecure (69%), and living with children (67%). Few women met dietary recommendations. Barriers to healthy eating include cost, convenience/preparation time, family taste preferences, and limitations of federal food assistance programs. Facilitators are high self-efficacy for nutrition change and health knowledge on average. These results challenge the strategy of using nutrition education to improve healthy eating and instead show that intervention messaging should focus on limited, achievable steps to improve dietary choices that fit within cost, convenience, and taste constraints.

Indexed as

Food AssistanceFood PreferencesAdultChildDietFemaleFood SupplyHumansIowaMiddle AgedPovertyYoung AdultAfrican Americansattitudesdietfood securitynutrition assistancepovertyqualitative research

Identifiers

PMID32679700
PMCPMC7400203
OpenAlexW3043477584

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