Pub Date : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2067511
E. Ruder, Meg Demment, M. Graham
ABSTRACT The Cleaned.Cut.SNAP fruit and vegetable (FV) incentive program provided two weekly discounts of $5 off a $10 FV purchase via a grocery store loyalty card. The purpose of this study was to understand barriers to healthy eating, motivation for incentive use, redemption challenges, and perceived benefits of incentive use among participants. Twenty-two program participants in the 16-week pilot completed 1:1 semi-structured telephone interviews. The incentives helped participants overcome the barrier of affordability w to healthy eating, with cost-savings and improved health being motivators for incentive use. Participants reported purchasing/consuming more FV, improved health, food budgeting, and dietary variety during Cleaned.Cut.SNAP.
{"title":"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Shoppers Experience in A Grocery Store Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program: A Qualitative Study","authors":"E. Ruder, Meg Demment, M. Graham","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2067511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2067511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Cleaned.Cut.SNAP fruit and vegetable (FV) incentive program provided two weekly discounts of $5 off a $10 FV purchase via a grocery store loyalty card. The purpose of this study was to understand barriers to healthy eating, motivation for incentive use, redemption challenges, and perceived benefits of incentive use among participants. Twenty-two program participants in the 16-week pilot completed 1:1 semi-structured telephone interviews. The incentives helped participants overcome the barrier of affordability w to healthy eating, with cost-savings and improved health being motivators for incentive use. Participants reported purchasing/consuming more FV, improved health, food budgeting, and dietary variety during Cleaned.Cut.SNAP.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83303603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2065597
Kristen Brassard Wirkkala, M. Niles, E. Belarmino, F. Bertmann
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship of home food procurement (HFP) during COVID-19 to emotional eating and stress using a statewide representative survey (n = 600) in Vermont. Women and people with a job change since COVID-19 were more likely to experience higher stress and emotional eating. Engaging in HFP, especially gardening, is associated with less emotional eating. However, people who fished, hunted, or canned more since the pandemic began were more likely to eat for emotional reasons and experience higher stress. These results suggest that gardening, even during a pandemic, may contribute to stress reduction, more so than other nature-based food production activities.
{"title":"The Fruits of Labor: Home Food Procurement and Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19","authors":"Kristen Brassard Wirkkala, M. Niles, E. Belarmino, F. Bertmann","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2065597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2065597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We examine the relationship of home food procurement (HFP) during COVID-19 to emotional eating and stress using a statewide representative survey (n = 600) in Vermont. Women and people with a job change since COVID-19 were more likely to experience higher stress and emotional eating. Engaging in HFP, especially gardening, is associated with less emotional eating. However, people who fished, hunted, or canned more since the pandemic began were more likely to eat for emotional reasons and experience higher stress. These results suggest that gardening, even during a pandemic, may contribute to stress reduction, more so than other nature-based food production activities.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87636120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2060718
Tara L Crowell, Emily H. Chau, Brianna Fusco
ABSTRACT Many residents of Atlantic City, New Jersey, a food desert, experience food insecurity. COVID-19, along with summer school closures, compounds this problem. AtlantiCare’s Free Summer Meals for Children and Teens helps combat this crisis. This case study provides an overview of the programs and descriptive statistics highlighting participants and their perceptions. Data indicate a positive experience and a high impact on their food insecurity, nutrition, physical and mental health, quality of time with friends and family, and writing and reading skills. This article illustrates how AtlantiCare is helping to close the meal gap and identifies the need for future efforts.
{"title":"Closing the Summer Meal Gap during COVID-19: AtlantiCare’s Free Summer Meals for Children and Teens","authors":"Tara L Crowell, Emily H. Chau, Brianna Fusco","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2060718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2060718","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many residents of Atlantic City, New Jersey, a food desert, experience food insecurity. COVID-19, along with summer school closures, compounds this problem. AtlantiCare’s Free Summer Meals for Children and Teens helps combat this crisis. This case study provides an overview of the programs and descriptive statistics highlighting participants and their perceptions. Data indicate a positive experience and a high impact on their food insecurity, nutrition, physical and mental health, quality of time with friends and family, and writing and reading skills. This article illustrates how AtlantiCare is helping to close the meal gap and identifies the need for future efforts.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89745228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-04DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2058333
Anne O. Musa, Carlos E. Carpio, Oldewage-Theron Wilna
ABSTRACT This study was designed to identify households’ characteristics associated with participation in private food charities compared to those associated with participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This cross-sectional study used data from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized and multiple linear regression models. Participants in SNAP and private food charities were found to differ across several sociodemographic characteristics. Overall, households who use private food charities were found to be older and poorer relative to SNAP households.
{"title":"Who Uses Food Banks and Other Private Food Charities? A Comparison with SNAP Users","authors":"Anne O. Musa, Carlos E. Carpio, Oldewage-Theron Wilna","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2058333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2058333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study was designed to identify households’ characteristics associated with participation in private food charities compared to those associated with participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This cross-sectional study used data from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized and multiple linear regression models. Participants in SNAP and private food charities were found to differ across several sociodemographic characteristics. Overall, households who use private food charities were found to be older and poorer relative to SNAP households.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91236288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2052782
Alexander E. C. Hill, Stephanie Gonzalez Guittar
ABSTRACT This study explores the emotional aspects of receiving food assistance and how these experiences may affect future assistance seeking. Through interviews with food recipients, our analysis revealed that individuals experience an overwhelming sense of gratitude, but also a sense of powerlessness, and at times a lack of dignity when reaching out for assistance. We explore how individuals directly and indirectly assert their agency to create a positive outcome despite the circumstances. The findings support the importance of accounting for emotions when researching food insecurity because achieving food security takes more than simply providing emergency food.
{"title":"Powerlessness, Gratitude, Shame, and Dignity: Emotional Experiences of Food Pantry Clients","authors":"Alexander E. C. Hill, Stephanie Gonzalez Guittar","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2052782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2052782","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores the emotional aspects of receiving food assistance and how these experiences may affect future assistance seeking. Through interviews with food recipients, our analysis revealed that individuals experience an overwhelming sense of gratitude, but also a sense of powerlessness, and at times a lack of dignity when reaching out for assistance. We explore how individuals directly and indirectly assert their agency to create a positive outcome despite the circumstances. The findings support the importance of accounting for emotions when researching food insecurity because achieving food security takes more than simply providing emergency food.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82430682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2055437
Brenda A. Z. Abu, Samantha Tavarez, W. Oldewage-Theron
ABSTRACT This study evaluated University students’ experiences and suggested solutions to food insecurity (N = 16). A questionnaire survey measured students’ socio-demography and food security status using Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS). Focus group discussions assessed students’ experiences and suggestions, grouped into themes. Half (50%) of the students were male, mean age was 25.1 years and 62% were food insecure. Food insecure students reported skipping meals, and grocery shopping infrequently. Students propose a campus farmers’ market, cooking classes, online nutrition education, and financial literacy would address student resource management limitations. Revising financial aid, international study and work guidelines should address systemic gaps.
{"title":"University Students Suggest Solutions to Campus Food Insecurity: A Mixed Methods Study","authors":"Brenda A. Z. Abu, Samantha Tavarez, W. Oldewage-Theron","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2055437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2055437","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study evaluated University students’ experiences and suggested solutions to food insecurity (N = 16). A questionnaire survey measured students’ socio-demography and food security status using Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS). Focus group discussions assessed students’ experiences and suggestions, grouped into themes. Half (50%) of the students were male, mean age was 25.1 years and 62% were food insecure. Food insecure students reported skipping meals, and grocery shopping infrequently. Students propose a campus farmers’ market, cooking classes, online nutrition education, and financial literacy would address student resource management limitations. Revising financial aid, international study and work guidelines should address systemic gaps.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76644726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2052781
T. Jennings, Nafisatu Bukari, M. Hendrickson, H. Plourde, Beccah Frasier
ABSTRACT The present study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of program expansion of an afterschool Nutrition and Culinary Education Program with a 79% participation rate. A retrospective matched-pairs analysis was conducted on pre- and post-survey data of all five sites of 284 young participants (and their parents) who took part in a 10-week, 2-hour cooking and educational workshop. The results demonstrate that NCEP’s are effective, producing significant positive change in diverse neighborhoods in areas of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors around food. However, results varied among individual sites. Further study is needed to understand factors, which may influence outcomes between individual sites.
{"title":"An Evaluation of an Expanded Nutrition and Culinary Education After-School Program for 4th and 5th Graders in Five Diverse Urban Neighborhoods","authors":"T. Jennings, Nafisatu Bukari, M. Hendrickson, H. Plourde, Beccah Frasier","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2052781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2052781","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of program expansion of an afterschool Nutrition and Culinary Education Program with a 79% participation rate. A retrospective matched-pairs analysis was conducted on pre- and post-survey data of all five sites of 284 young participants (and their parents) who took part in a 10-week, 2-hour cooking and educational workshop. The results demonstrate that NCEP’s are effective, producing significant positive change in diverse neighborhoods in areas of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors around food. However, results varied among individual sites. Further study is needed to understand factors, which may influence outcomes between individual sites.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77548311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2052783
Carina Chiodo, K. Goto, Kyle Horst, J. Giampaoli, Luciano Giromini
ABSTRACT This study examined food attitudes, mindful eating, and satisfaction with food-related life (SWFL) among Italian and American college students. Food attitudes (Diet-Health Orientation and Food Negativity), SWFL, and Awareness and Recognition, the subscales of a mindful eating questionnaire, were measured. There was significant difference in Awareness and Diet-Health Orientation between Italian and American students. For both groups, Awareness was significantly correlated with SWFL and inversely correlated with Food Negativity and Diet-Health Orientation. Recognition was inversely correlated with Food Negativity. SWFL was inversely correlated with food attitudes. These findings suggest that mindful eating could promote more adaptive food attitudes and behaviors.
{"title":"Food Attitudes, Mindful Eating, and Satisfaction with Food-Related Life among Italian and American University Students","authors":"Carina Chiodo, K. Goto, Kyle Horst, J. Giampaoli, Luciano Giromini","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2052783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2052783","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined food attitudes, mindful eating, and satisfaction with food-related life (SWFL) among Italian and American college students. Food attitudes (Diet-Health Orientation and Food Negativity), SWFL, and Awareness and Recognition, the subscales of a mindful eating questionnaire, were measured. There was significant difference in Awareness and Diet-Health Orientation between Italian and American students. For both groups, Awareness was significantly correlated with SWFL and inversely correlated with Food Negativity and Diet-Health Orientation. Recognition was inversely correlated with Food Negativity. SWFL was inversely correlated with food attitudes. These findings suggest that mindful eating could promote more adaptive food attitudes and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85250381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2047864
Amber Wade, Kritika Gupta, D. Holben
ABSTRACT This preliminary project evaluated home-delivered meal-kits and their relationship to a sustainable community food system. An exploratory evaluation/case study was conducted to understand how meal-kit messaging may reduce food loss and waste. Box contents and inner and outer packaging materials, including marketing messages, were evaluated based on the FAO’s food supply chain framework for community food systems. Home-delivered meal-kits may impact consumer behavior, decreasing food waste and loss. Studying the impact of meal-kit messaging on consumer behavior in rural and nonrural household may be a worthwhile avenue to decrease food and food packaging waste and loss in the United States.
{"title":"FIELD NOTES: PEOPLE, PROGRAMS, & POLICIES:* Exploratory Evaluation of Home-Delivered Meal-kits within a Rural, Southern United States Community Food System","authors":"Amber Wade, Kritika Gupta, D. Holben","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2047864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2047864","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This preliminary project evaluated home-delivered meal-kits and their relationship to a sustainable community food system. An exploratory evaluation/case study was conducted to understand how meal-kit messaging may reduce food loss and waste. Box contents and inner and outer packaging materials, including marketing messages, were evaluated based on the FAO’s food supply chain framework for community food systems. Home-delivered meal-kits may impact consumer behavior, decreasing food waste and loss. Studying the impact of meal-kit messaging on consumer behavior in rural and nonrural household may be a worthwhile avenue to decrease food and food packaging waste and loss in the United States.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84568601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2047863
Nhi Tran, S. Bellini
ABSTRACT The Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP®) is a 17-item nutrition-screening tool administered to parents. This study validated the food security question in the NutriSTEP® against the Household Food Security Survey (HFSS) and the Hunger Vital Sign. Parents (n = 55) of Head Start preschoolers answered an online survey that included the NutriSTEP®, the Hunger Vital Sign, and the HFSS. All of the tools identified over 40% of the participants experienced food insecurity. The food security question in the NutriSTEP® had 82.1% sensitivity and 94.1% specificity when compared against the HFSS reference standard. The NutriSTEP® adequately identified children with food insecurity.
{"title":"Validating Food Security Measurement in a Pediatric Nutrition Screening Tool (Nutristep®)","authors":"Nhi Tran, S. Bellini","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2047863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2047863","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP®) is a 17-item nutrition-screening tool administered to parents. This study validated the food security question in the NutriSTEP® against the Household Food Security Survey (HFSS) and the Hunger Vital Sign. Parents (n = 55) of Head Start preschoolers answered an online survey that included the NutriSTEP®, the Hunger Vital Sign, and the HFSS. All of the tools identified over 40% of the participants experienced food insecurity. The food security question in the NutriSTEP® had 82.1% sensitivity and 94.1% specificity when compared against the HFSS reference standard. The NutriSTEP® adequately identified children with food insecurity.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80806079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}