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ArticleBMC public health2024

Benchmarking for healthy food stores: protocol for a randomised controlled trial with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia to enhance adoption of health-enabling store policy and practice.

Julie Brimblecombe, Megan Ferguson, Emma McMahon, Bronwyn Fredericks, Nicole Turner, Christina Pollard, Louise Maple-Brown, Joanna Batstone, Leisa McCarthy, Eddie Miles and 20 more

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30 authors.

Julie BrimblecombeDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia. Julie.brimblecombe@monash.edu.
Megan FergusonDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Emma McMahonDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Bronwyn FredericksOffice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, 4006, Australia.
Nicole TurnerIndigenous Allied Health Australia, Alia House, Napier Cl, 2600, Deakin, ACT, Australia.
Christina PollardFaculty of Health Sciences, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Louise Maple-BrownMenzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Royal Darwin Hospital Campus, Darwin, NT, Australia.
Joanna BatstoneMonash Data Futures Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Leisa McCarthyMenzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Royal Darwin Hospital Campus, Darwin, NT, Australia.
Eddie MilesMenzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Royal Darwin Hospital Campus, Darwin, NT, Australia.
Khia De SilvaArnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, 70 O'Sullivan Cct, East Arm, NT, 0822, Australia.
Adam BarnesNT Health, Manunda Place, 38 Cavenagh Street, Darwin, NT, 0800, Australia.
Mark ChatfieldSchool of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Level 4 Public Health Building, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Amanda HillDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Meaghan ChristianDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Emma van BurgelDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Molly FairweatherDepartment of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Anna MurisonOutback Stores, 67 Pruen Rd, Berrimah, NT, 0828, Australia.
Dickson LukoseMonash Data Futures Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Surekha GaikwadMonash Data Futures Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Meron LewisSchool of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Level 4 Public Health Building, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Rebekah ClancyMiwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation, Lot 1425 Arnhem Road, Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia.
Claire SantosPopulation and Primary Health Care Outreach Team, NT Health, Casuarina Plaza, 258 Trower Road, Darwin, NT, 0810, Australia.
Kora UhlmannHealth and Wellbeing Queensland, 139 Coronation Drive, Milton, QLD, 4064, Australia.
Sarah FunstonArnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, 70 O'Sullivan Cct, East Arm, NT, 0822, Australia.
Laura BaddeleyArnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, 70 O'Sullivan Cct, East Arm, NT, 0822, Australia.
Sally TsekourasKatherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation, 38 First St, Katherine, NT, 0850, Australia.
Jaithri AnanthapavanDeakin Health Economics, School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Institute for Health Transformation, Geelong, Australia.
Gary SacksGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Institute for Health Transformation, Geelong, Australia.
Amanda LeeSchool of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Level 4 Public Health Building, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote Australia have initiated bold policies for health-enabling stores. Benchmarking, a data-driven and facilitated 'audit and feedback' with action planning process, provides a potential strategy to strengthen and scale health-enabling best-practice adoption by remote community store directors/owners. We aim to co-design a benchmarking model with five partner organisations and test its effectiveness with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stores in remote Australia.

methodsStudy design is a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with consenting eligible stores (located in very remote Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, primary grocery store for an Aboriginal community, and serviced by a Nutrition Practitioner with a study partner organisation). The Benchmarking model is informed by research evidence, purpose-built best-practice audit and feedback tools, and co-designed with partner organisation and community representatives. The intervention comprises two full benchmarking cycles (one per year, 2022/23 and 2023/24) of assessment, feedback, action planning and action implementation. Assessment of stores includes i adoption status of 21 evidence-and industry-informed health-enabling policies for remote stores, ii implementation of health-enabling best-practice using a purpose-built Store Scout App, iii price of a standardised healthy diet using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthy Diets ASAP protocol; and, iv healthiness of food purchasing using sales data indicators. Partner organisations feedback reports and co-design action plans with stores. Control stores receive assessments and continue with usual retail practice. All stores provide weekly electronic sales data to assess the primary outcome, change in free sugars (g) to energy (MJ) from all food and drinks purchased, baseline (July-December 2021) vs July-December 2023. DISCUSSION: We hypothesise that the benchmarking intervention can improve the adoption of health-enabling store policy and practice and reduce sales of unhealthy foods and drinks in remote community stores of Australia. This innovative research with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can inform effective implementation strategies for healthy food retail more broadly.

trial registrationACTRN12622000596707, Protocol version 1.

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BenchmarkingDiet, HealthyFood SupplyAustraliaAustralian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PeoplesCommerceHumansPragmatic Clinical Trials as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRural PopulationBenchmarkingContinuous improvementDietHealth policyImplementation strategyIndigenous health

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PMCPMC11229494

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