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Impacts

The extent to which program outcomes lead to long-term and sustained changes.

Implementation

Pertains to whether the intervention was delivered with fidelity or as intended and whether the essential elements known to be important to the achievement of positive outcomes were actually and consistently implemented. To be effective, organizational policy changes and environmental supports should be made as part of multi-component and multi-level interventions to sustain the new changes or standards over time.

Implementing agency

Sub-awardee or grantee funded by State agencies to provide nutrition education and obesity prevention services.

In-kind support

Resources in the form of goods and services, rather than cash

Injunctive norms

Refer to what ought to be; they convey what is approved and disapproved by a group or society.

Intensity

How hard a person works to do an activity.

Intermediaries

People in a site or organization who approve, plan, and/or deliver interventions. In schools, these may be principals, teachers, or staff; in worksites, these may be employers, paid staff, or employee leaders; in community organizations, these may be paid staff or volunteers; in food stores, these may be company officials, managers and supervisors, or paid staff.

Intermediated sales

Strategy to promote the presence and affordability of healthier foods in retail and food service settings, allowing people more opportunities to make healthier food choices. Various programs and policies can contribute to healthier foods in these environments including providing incentives for supermarkets or small grocery stores to establish businesses in underserved areas; improving the quality, variety, and amount of healthier foods at existing retail and food service establishments; and promoting local foods.

Intervention type

Intervention type includes Direct Education (Direct Ed); Social Marketing; and Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change (PSE). For Direct Ed interventions, participants are actively engaged in the learning process with an educator and/or interactive media.