Download or read book Longitudinal Associations Between Home Food Environment and Diet Quality in Children written by Jonae B. Perez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child and adolescent diets in the United States are high in fat and sodium and low in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and dairy foods. Parental practices and foods provided in the home greatly influence children's food related behaviors. This impact may change as children progress through adolescence and other factors begin to play a role, such as peers, media, and convenience of food. This study aimed to investigate longitudinal relationships between parenting around food/eating, foods available in the home, and future child diet quality in younger versus older children. The National Impact on Kids (NIK) Study was a prospective cohort study with two time points, baseline and 2-year follow-up. Parental surveys were used to collect data on home food environment and 24-hour food recalls were used to collect child dietary intake. Child diet quality indicators include DASH score, fruit and vegetable intake, and high-energy beverage intake. In this secondary data analysis, participants were dichotomized in to two groups: younger (ages 6-8.99) versus older (ages 9-12.5) at study initiation. Hierarchical linear regression models were used to assess the association between initial parenting around food/eating and foods available in the home and future child diet quality indicators. Participants were 50.7% female and predominantly Non-Hispanic White (70.2%). A significant overall change in DASH scores (p=.053), total fruit and vegetable intake (p=.017), and high-energy beverage consumption (p

Download or read book Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences written by Michele Ver Ploeg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.

Download or read book Parent Recollections of the Child Home Food Environment written by Sarah Dreifke and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping behavior begins at an early age. Parents and caregivers serve as role models for children in forming behaviors, as well as eating habits. The social context in which children's eating patterns develop is important because the eating behavior of people in that environment serves as a model for the developing child. Few studies have observed the longitudinal impact of these influences in adulthood, specifically in college students. While the limited number of studies observing this relationship have found associations between the child home food environment and later eating behaviors, diet quality and body composition have yet to be extensively examined. Additionally, current means of analyzing the "child home food environment" have been narrowly focused on controlling parental feeding practices, failing to consider other relevant constructs such as food availability and accessibility, parental modeling, education and child involvement. The purpose of this study was to further explore these possible long-term impacts of parent and caregiver influences during childhood. A cross-sectional random sample of current Northern Illinois University college students and their childhood caregivers was utilized. One-hundred and five NIU students participated in the study. Dietary information and body composition measures were obtained using a detailed 24-hour food recall, a short food frequency questionnaire, and the InBody 520 body composition machine. A total of 74 caregivers responded to a retrospective survey, which aimed to gather data about the student's child home food environment. Significant associations were found between caregiver feeding practices and diet quality, body composition and self-efficacy. Use of certain positive feeding practices were negatively associated with percent body fat (p=0.047), waist circumference (p=0.046) and perceived healthy food barriers (p=0.008), and positively associated with consumption of green vegetables and beans (p=0.045) and consumption of dairy (p=0.016). No significant associations were found between positive caregiver feeding practices and overall diet quality. Use of negative feeding practices yielded some mixed results. Body mass index was positively associated with using food as a reward (p=0.003) and restriction for weight (p=0.013), but negatively associated with emotional regulation (p=0.027) and pressuring to eat (p=0.030). Waist circumference was positively associated with using food as a reward (p=0.001), but negatively associated with emotional regulation (p=0.021), pressuring to eat (p=0.025) and restriction for weight (p=0.020). The complexities of the food environment are evident. However, the findings of this study highlight the importance of the child home food environment and the possible positive and negative impacts it can serve past childhood and adolescence into early adulthood. The influences around diet quality, body composition, and self-efficacy merits further exploration for this population in transition between childhood and adulthood independence.

Download or read book How Food Away from Home Affects Children s Diet Quality written by Lisa Mancino and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. This study includes estimates of how each child¿s consumption of food away from home, food from school, and caloric sweetened beverages affects that child¿s diet quality and calorie consumption. Compared with meals and snacks prepared at home, food prepared away from home increases caloric intake of children, esp. older children. Each food-away-from-home meal adds 108 more calories to daily total intake among children ages 13-18 than a snack or meal from home. Both food away from home and all food from school also lower the daily diet quality of older children. Among younger children, the effect of food from school on caloric intake and diet quality does not differ significantly from that of food from home. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Preventing Childhood Obesity written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking developmentâ€"an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century. Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental, medical, and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence. The book also offers a prevention-oriented action plan that identifies the most promising array of short-term and longer-term interventions, as well as recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of numerous stakeholders in various sectors of society to reduce its future occurrence. Preventing Childhood Obesity explores the underlying causes of this serious health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.

Download or read book The Home Food Environment During Infancy and Associations with Toddler Diet at Age 2 Years written by Sara Masker and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As childhood obesity rates continue to rise, it is important to study the modifiable factors that can contribute to this epidemic. Creating a positive home food environment starting as early as infancy can help create healthy dietary patterns. The purpose of this study is to examine how three controllable elements of the home food environment -- family meals, out of home meals, and television exposure -- during infancy impact dietary patterns in toddlerhood. Aims for the study were as follows: 1) To examine the association between the environment of family meals in infancy and toddler diet; 2) To examine association of the frequency of family meals in infancy and toddler diet; 3) To examine the association of the frequency of restaurant meals in infancy and toddler diet. This study is an observational, secondary analysis of the INSIGHT randomized control trial. Participants for the current study included 217 healthy mother-infant dyads recruited from a Central Pennsylvania maternity ward. At child age 44 weeks, mothers completed a Family Meals and TV questionnaire. A factor analysis was conducted and created three subscales for the Family Meals and TV questionnaire -- time/priority for family meals, social aspect of family meals, and value of rules at family meals. Questions regarding television exposure and frequency of family meals were also assessed based on this questionnaire. At child age 2 years, mothers completed a semi-quantitative, 121-item Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess toddler diet. A latent class analysis was conducted to identify three toddler dietary classes - meat potatoes and added sugar (MPAS, 24.65% of the sample), high fruit and vegetables (HVF, 31.16% of the sample), and high juice low fruit and vegetable (JLFV, 44.19% of the sample). To test study hypotheses, linear models were conducted examining the associations between the home food environment in infancy and later toddler diet; when omnibus tests indicated associations between these variables, follow-up logistic regressions were examined to specify the relation between the home food environment and odds of dietary class membership. H1a was supported: results indicate that parents' prioritization of family meals was associated with toddler dietary class (omnibus F = 3.66, p = 0.01). Specifically, parents who were higher on prioritization of family meals during infancy had toddlers who were less likely to be in the MPAS dietary class than the HFV or JLFV classes (odds ratio = 0.53, 95% CI = 0.34-0.82). H6 was supported: results indicate that meals eaten in restaurants during infancy was associated with toddler dietary patterns (omnibus F = 6.24, p = 0.01). Specifically, infants who ate more meals in restaurants were more likely to be in the MPAS dietary class than the HFV or the JLFV classes (odds ratio = 1.93, 95% CI = 1.3-2.7). Overall, our data indicate that some home food environment factors in infancy were linked with later toddler diet. Specifically, parents' prioritization of family meals, or emphasis on making sure they happen within the family, as well as limiting the amount of meals eaten outside of the home, may yield healthier dietary patterns for children. Since previous research has demonstrated the strong influence maternal dietary patterns have on children, future directions in this line of research should consider how maternal dietary intake impacts the child's home food environment. Further, research on the home food environment should also expand to examine child weight status as an outcome with dietary patterns as a mechanism.

Download or read book Examining the Relationship Between Home Food Environment and Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Children written by Weilin Li and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) is one of the potential contributors to childhood obesity. It has been found to be associated with children's weight status and parental feeding practices. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the home food environment and children's EAH, as well as to test the moderation effect of familial risk for obesity. This study was a secondary data analysis of the ongoing longitudinal cohort study, Brain Mechanisms of Overeating in Children Study (i.e., the "Food and Brain Study"). A total of 88 young children (mean: 7.88 ± 0.67 years) were included. Data used in this study was collected from 3 separate visits. Children consumed an ad libitum test-meal and then completed the Eating in the Absence of Hunger protocol in a lab setting. Home food environment was measured by the parental self-reported Family Food Behavior Survey (FFBS). In contrast to our hypotheses, we did not find any significant associations between the home food environment and children's EAH levels using Pearson correlation and linear regression models. Therefore, we did not proceed to the moderator analyses at first. The moderator analyses were added after the thesis was completed and there were no significant interaction effects found. Additional analyses were conducted with the use of multiple independent t-tests. The results showed that compared to their low-risk counterparts, children with high familial risk for obesity had a significantly higher score on the FFBS Organization subscale, which is reverse-scored indicating a poorer environment (t = -3.748, p

Download or read book Impact of the Home Food Environment on Dietary Intake Obesity and Cardiovascular Health of U S Children and Adolescents Aged 6 19 written by Melissa A. Masters and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth obesity is an ongoing problem in the United States. Obese children and adolescents are likely to be obese as adults and have an increased risk of developing chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, earlier in life. The multifactorial nature of obesity continues to challenge researchers and health professionals to determine methods for preventing and reducing childhood obesity. Research has suggested that obesity is a normal response to an "obesigenic" environment. Emerging as one of the most influential environments in obesity and behavior development is the home food environment. However, little is understood about the role of the home food environment in obesity and disease development in youth. The purpose of this research was to examine factors that influence the home food environment as well as the relationship between the home food environment and dietary intake, obesity, and disease development in a nationally representative sample of U.S. youth aged 6-19 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Race-ethnicity and poverty income ratio (PIR) were found to influence home food availability, family meal patterns, and family food expenditures, three aspects of the home food environment. Race-ethnicity, PIR, and home food availability appeared to influence dietary consumption in youth. However, home food availability did not appear to be related to overweight or obesity in youth. Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents was associated with adverse lipid concentrations. The home food environment is complex but may serve as a modifiable area for nutrition educators to influence dietary intake in youth. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in home food environments should be addressed in the development of effective public policy and nutrition education development. Although the home food environment was not found to be related to obesity in youth, research should continue assessing environmental factors of obesity development as obesity is related to disease development earlier in life.

Download or read book Sustainable healthy diets written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the detrimental environmental impact of current food systems, and the concerns raised about their sustainability, there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental impacts. These diets also need to be socio-culturally acceptable and economically accessible for all. Acknowledging the existence of diverging views on the concepts of sustainable diets and healthy diets, countries have requested guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on what constitutes sustainable healthy diets. These guiding principles take a holistic approach to diets; they consider international nutrition recommendations; the environmental cost of food production and consumption; and the adaptability to local social, cultural and economic contexts. This publication aims to support the efforts of countries as they work to transform food systems to deliver on sustainable healthy diets, contributing to the achievement of the SDGs at country level, especially Goals 1 (No Poverty), 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 13 (Climate Action).

Download or read book Transforming Food Environments written by Charlotte EL Evans and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We regularly find ourselves in food environments that promote the consumption of high fat and sugary foods rather than encouraging us to eat more fruit and vegetables. However, because of increased media attention, people are becoming more interested in alternative approaches to improving the many food-related decisions we make daily. Transforming Food Environments features evidence from several disciplines exploring initiatives that have improved food environments and discusses the importance of achieving success in equitable and sustainable ways. The book presents information on diverse food environments followed by methods that help readers become aware of the design of interventions and food policies. It covers food environments in schools, workplaces, and community centres as well as fast food establishments and food marketing. The book presents methods to help encourage better food choices and purchase of healthier foods. It explores persuasion tactics used by health professionals such as changing availability and/or price, using nudging techniques, and food labelling. Led by Editor Charlotte Evans, Associate Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition at the University of Leeds; and written by an international range of authors from countries including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United Kingdom, this multidisciplinary book appeals to students, researchers, public health professionals and policy makers. It also raises awareness and provides a comprehensive treatment of the importance of our environments on food choice.

Download or read book The Association Between Frequency of Family Meals and Diet Quality in Children in North Carolina written by Sara Kathleen Fink and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family meals provide an opportunity for family members to interact and maintain family cohesion. Through family meals parents also have the opportunity to model healthful eating and provide healthy food choices to other family members. Eating patterns are developed as children and adolescents and continue through adulthood. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between family meal frequency and the diet quality (fruit, vegetable, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption) of children ages 1-17 in North Carolina. The Social Cognitive Theory was used as a model to guide the research to understand the home environment. Data from the 2010 North Carolina Child Health Assessment and Monitoring Program survey was used. In adjusted analysis, eating more than five home-cooked family meals per week was found to be associated with greater fruit consumption (OR=1.60, 95% CI 1.22-2.11) and greater vegetable consumption (OR=1.74, 95% CI=1.27-2.39) among children ages 1-17. More family meals was also associated with no sugar-sweetened beverage consumption (OR=1.50, 95% 0=1.12-2.09). Adolescents had over twice the odds of consuming fruits if they participated in more family meals (OR=2.10, 95% CI=1.39-3.19). Children ages six through seventeen who had more family meals had greater odds of vegetable consumption (ages 6-11 OR=1.87, 95% CI 1.08-3.24; ages 12-17 OR=1.79, 95% CI 1.12-2.86). Children ages six through eleven had over twice the odds of not consuming sugar-sweetened beverages when they participated in more family meals (OR=2.09, 95% CI 1.25-3.52). Future studies should further explore the complex relationship between family dynamics and diet quality measures. The hypotheses were found to be correct with family meals associated with diet quality.

Download or read book Home Food Preparation Fosters a Functional Relationship with Nutrition Between Parents and Children written by Donna T. Gitt and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades childhood overweight and obesity has risen as have a number of related pediatric chronic diseases, all of which are associated with multiple physiologic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Recent research models have identified the frequency of meals eaten outside of the home and the home food environment as primary indicators of diet quality in children. It is also clear that parental influence plays an integral role in shaping a child's life-long relationship with food, and that involving children in food preparation is linked with more nutrient dense food selections. Thus public health professionals are tasked with developing relevant interventions to mitigate future health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate an interactive nutrition education lesson for the parents and/or legal guardians of preschool and elementary aged children at the Freedom Valley YMCA. The 30 minute lesson focused on general healthy eating guidelines for children, the detrimental effects of frequent meals consumed from restaurants and fast food establishments, the benefits of home cooked meals, and of including children in the meal preparation process. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze data collected through pre and post-test surveys. Participants demonstrated increased familiarity with the USDA MyPlate and improvement in all knowledge based questions surrounding lesson content. Significant positive change was also noted among questions assessing attitudes surrounding meals eaten inside and outside the home, fast food and sugar sweetened beverage consumption, as well as inclusion of children in the meal preparation process. Participants all expressed interest in increasing the healthfulness of their children's diet. Overall significance of results analysis suggests a positive outcome for this intervention and good potential for similar follow-up research. The results of this study indicate that parents are invested in child nutrition, and that they are interested in role modeling appropriate behaviors to influence long-term health and wellbeing.

Download or read book Associations Between Diet Quality Vegetable Availability and Access and Food Security in Low income Children written by Matthew James Landry and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity is a pervasive problem in the United States, and has been previously associated with adverse health and wellbeing in children. The mechanism that underlies this association is assumed to be poor dietary intake, which is likely a result of lack of access to healthy, affordable foods. The purpose of this research was to examine associations between dietary quality, vegetable availability and access, and food insecurity within low-income children. Cross-sectional data from TX Sprouts, a school-based randomized controlled cooking, gardening, and nutrition intervention, were used. Public health and surveillance efforts rely on accurate measures of child food insecurity; however, research suggests that current efforts which utilize parent report of child-level food insecurity may be inaccurate or underestimate the true prevalence. The first aim was to compare child versus parent perceptions of child-level food security status via questionnaires within a large, ethnically diverse population. Previous approaches to alleviating food insecurity and providing nutritious foods, like vegetables, have focused on community or policy level barriers that these households may face. However, even when these barriers have been overcome, individual and interpersonal barriers to vegetable availability, access, and utilization may still persist. The second aim was to examine the relationship between individual and interpersonal barriers to availability, access and utilization of vegetables and household food insecurity. The third aim was to examine the relationship between self-reported food insecurity and dietary quality. Research in this area was needed as evidence linking food insecurity to child dietary intake has been largely unclear and has utilized parent's perception of child-level food insecurity. The results of this research demonstrated the discordance that exists between child report and parent perceptions of child-level food insecurity and that additional research is needed in large, nationally representative samples. Further, within food-insecure households, significant barriers to access, availability, and utilization of vegetables were found. These barriers serve as ideal targets for future interventions seeking to improve vegetable consumption in low-income children. Lastly, food insecurity was associated with lower diet quality. Interventions targeting food insecure children are needed to improve dietary quality as this may alleviate some of the detrimental impacts of food insecurity on health and wellbeing

Download or read book The Impact of Parents Perceptions of the Food Quality Within Their Neighborhood and Most Frequented Food Stores and the Distance to Food Stores on Children s Diet Quality written by Katharine Olivia Lutz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, which could signal an unprecedented shift in lifespan, with the current generation living a short life than their parents. Although there are a variety of contributing factors, some of the largest gains in childhood obesity reduction could come from examining the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and children's diet quality (DQ). While many studies have investigated the influence of distance to supermarkets on adults' DQ, few have examined the effects on young children. Further, studies have rarely considered parents' perceptions of local food quality as a predictor of children's DQ, nor have studies used the parents' frequented food store (FFS) as the measure of exposure. Finally, there remains a need to assess if parents travel farther for food shopping when their perceptions of neighborhood food quality differ from their perceptions of food quality at their FFS, because this additional travel burden may be prohibitive to healthy food procurement. Participants were 686 parent-child pairs from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids (NIK) Study. Parents' perceptions of neighborhood and FFS quality were assessed via survey. Children's DQ was measured as adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan's overall and fruit and vegetable (F&V) recommendations through three, random 24-hour dietary recalls. FFSs were identified via survey and street network distances from home to the store were calculated via GIS. Linear regression analyses assessed the associations between parents' perceptions and child DQ as well as distance to the FFS and child DQ. A paired t-test determined if parents held discordant views about food quality between their neighborhood and FFS, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients assessed the association between discordance and food shopping distance. No statistically significant associations were found between parents' perceptions of FFS quality and children's overall DASH score in the adjusted analyses; however, the F&V component DASH score remained significant (p=.05). The adjusted models indicated that increasing distance to the parents' FFS improved children's overall and F&V component DASH scores. Parents' views of food quality within their neighborhood versus FFS differed, with FFSs receiving more positive assessments. Discordant views were weakly and significantly associated with distance to the FFS (r=-0.1, p=.01). Parents' perceptions of the food quality at their FFS are only weakly associated with children's DQ. This may be due to the fact that many factors impact food choice decision-making. The finding that children's DQ improved with increasing distance to the FFS suggested that parents valued healthfulness and were willing to travel farther to procure healthy, affordable food. Additionally, restricting the focus to just the relationship between the home and the FFS may have obscured the true nature of the food environment-diet quality relationship, and future studies should include other common destinations in one's daily activity space (e.g. work or school).

Download or read book Geographies of Race and Food written by Rachel Slocum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we understand farming and provisioning, tasting and picking, eating and being eaten, hunger and gardening better by paying attention to race? This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial dimension to the production and consumption of food under globalization. Building on case studies from across the world, it advances the conceptualization of race by emphasizing embodiment, circulation and materiality, while adding to food advocacy an antiracist perspective it often lacks. Within the three socio-physical spatialities of food - fields, bodies and markets - the collection reveals how race and food are intricately linked. An international and multidisciplinary team of scholars complements each other to shed light on how human groups become entrenched in myriad hierarchies through food, at scales from the dining room and market stall to the slave trade and empire. Following foodways as they constitute racial formations in often surprising ways, the chapters achieve a novel approach to the process of race as one that cannot be reduced to biology, culture or capitalism.

Download or read book How Food Away from Home Affects Children s Diet Quality written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 2 days of dietary data and panel data methods, this study includes estimates of how each child's consumption of food away from home, food from school (which includes all foods available for purchase at schools, not only those offered as part of USDA reimbursable meals), and caloric sweetened beverages affects that child's diet quality and calorie consumption. Compared with meals and snacks prepared at home, food prepared away from home increases caloric intake of children, especially older children. Each food-away-from-home meal adds 108 more calories to daily total intake among children ages 13-18 than a snack or meal from home; all food from school is estimated to add 145 more calories. Both food away from home and all food from school also lower the daily diet quality of older children (as measured by the 2005 Healthy Eating Index). Among younger children, who are more likely than older children to eat a USDA school meal and face a more healthful school food environment, the effect of food from school on caloric intake and diet quality does not differ significantly from that of food from home.

Download or read book Process Evaluation for Public Health Interventions and Research written by Allan Steckler and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process evaluation is an essential component of any program evaluation or intervention research effort. This important resource offers an overview of the history, purpose, strengths, and limitations of process evaluation and includes illustrative case material of the current state of the art in process evaluation. Process Evaluation for Public Health Interventions and Research fills an important gap in the literature for public health researchers, practitioners, scholars, trainers, and students.