ArticlePublic health nutrition2023
Lower redemption of monthly Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children benefits associated with higher risk of program discontinuation.
Article in Public health nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Predictors of Redemption among Low-Income, Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children Participants: A Secondary Analysis of a Multicomponent eHealth Behavioral Intervention Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- Factors associated with discontinued participation in a fruit and vegetable incentive program in Seattle, Washington (United States): The role of community-based organizations in engaging non-English speakers.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Barriers and Enablers to WIC Participation: Review of Evidence From Studies Published Between 2019 and 2024.AJPM focus · 2026Review
- Redemption of Specific Categories of WIC Food Benefits and Risk of Program Discontinuation.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Associations of Increased WIC Benefits for Fruits and Vegetables With Food Security and Satisfaction by Race and Ethnicity.Preventing chronic disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food benefit redemption is associated with discontinuing WIC participation, failure to recertify, overall and by race/ethnicity-language preference and participant category.
designRetrospective cohort study, using multivariable modified Poisson regression to determine risk ratios (RR) and 95 % CI for associations between household-level food benefit redemption (interval-scaled benefit redemption percent, averaged across WIC benefit subcategories, for the final 3, 6 and 12 months of certification) and failure to recertify in WIC, overall and within strata of race/ethnicity-language preference and participant category.
settingWIC administrative data collected November 2019-July 2021 in Southern California.
participantsWIC-participating children ages 0-3 years at initial certification from November 2019 to May 2020 (
resultsIn all time periods, and for all subgroups, every 10 % lower food benefit redemption was associated with increased risk of failure to recertify. Among households without missing food benefit data, failure to recertify risk peaked at 505 % higher (RR = 6·05, 95 % CI (5·63, 6·51)) in households with average 12-month redemption <10 % compared with households with ≥70 % redemption.
conclusionsLower WIC benefit redemption was associated with higher risk of failing to recertify among participants. Focused nutrition education around benefit redemption may improve WIC retention and child health through incremental increases in food benefit redemption.
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