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  • Effects of a Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program With Expanded Education for Low-Income Adults

    2022 | Slagel, N., Newman, T., Sanville, L., Dallas, J., Cotto-Rivera, E., Moore, J., Roberts Mph, A., & Sun Lee, J. (2022). Effects of a Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program With Expanded Education for Low-Income Adults. Health Education & Behavior, 49(5), 849–860. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981221091926
    Fruit and Vegetable Prescription (FVRx) Programs combine produce prescriptions and nutrition education to reduce fruit and vegetable consumption barriers and promote health among low-income patient populations. This study examined...
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  • Effects of an Obesity Prevention Intervention on Physical Activity Among Preschool Children: The CHILE Study.

    2016 | Cruz, T. H., Davis, S. M., Myers, O. B., O’Donald, E. R., Sanders, S. G., & Sheche, J. N. (2016). Effects of an Obesity Prevention Intervention on Physical Activity Among Preschool Children: The CHILE Study. Health Promotion Practice, 17(5), 693–701. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839916629974
    Background Limited research addresses interventions to increase physical activity among American Indian and Hispanic preschool-aged children living in rural areas. We examined the impact of a Head Start-based intervention (Child...
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  • Effectiveness of the Children's Healthy Living (CHL) Multilevel Multicomponent Community Intervention Program in 5 US affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions

    2017 | Novotny, R., Wilkens, L. R., Nigg, C. R., Braun, K., Butel, J., Areta, A., Coleman, P., Belyeu?Camacho, T., Greenberg, J., Bersamin, A., Guerrero, R. L., Barber, L. R., Fialkowski, M. K., & De La Cruz?Talbert, E. (2017). Effectiveness of the Children’s Healthy Living (CHL) Multilevel Multicomponent Community Intervention Program in 5 US affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions. The FASEB Journal, 31(S1). https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.31.1_supplement.640.37
    The Children's Healthy Living (CHL) program, a collaboration among Pacific Land Grant Colleges, was developed and implemented with 27 communities across the US affiliated Pacific region in a 24 month community randomized intervention...
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  • Effect of the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, a Multicomponent, School-Based Nutrition Intervention, on Physical Activity Intensity.

    2018 | Fetter, D. S., Scherr, R. E., Linnell, J. D., Dharmar, M., Schaefer, S. E., & Zidenberg-Cherr, S. (2018). Effect of the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, a Multicomponent, School-Based Nutrition Intervention, on Physical Activity Intensity. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 37(6), 472–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/07315724.2018.1436477
    OBJECTIVE: Physical activity has been shown to have a wide range of beneficial health effects, yet few youth meet the United States physical activity recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)...
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  • Empower Program

    2016 | Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS)
    The Empower Program is a PSE Change intervention developed by the Arizona Department of Health Services to support the efforts of licensed early care and education (ECE) facilities and certified family child care (FCC) homes to...
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  • Estimating intervention dose of the multilevel multisite children's healthy living program intervention

    2020 | Butel, J., Braun, K. L., Nigg, C. R., Leon Guerrero, R., Fleming, T., Bersamin, A., Coleman, P., & Novotny, R. (2020). Estimating intervention dose of the multilevel multisite children’s healthy living program intervention. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 10(4), 989–997. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz073
    Increased community collective efficacy (CE), defined as social cohesion among neighbors and their willingness to intervene for common good, is associated with improved community health outcomes. However, processes to increase CE and...
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  • Evaluating a school-based fruit and vegetable co-op in low-income children: A quasi-experimental study.

    2016 | Sharma, S. V., Markham, C., Chow, J., Ranjit, N., Pomeroy, M., & Raber, M. (2016). Evaluating a school-based fruit and vegetable co-op in low-income children: A quasi-experimental study. Preventive Medicine, 91, 8–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.07.022
    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new school-based food co-op program, Brighter Bites (BB), to increase fruit and vegetable intake, and home nutrition environment among low-income 1st graders and their...
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  • Evaluation of a Policy, Systems, and Environmental-Focused Faith-Based Health Promotion Program

    2020 | Hardison-Moody, A., Fuller, S., Jones, L., Franck, K., Rodibaugh, R., Washburn, L., Corrick, L., Shelnutt, K. P., Stumm, L., & Ammerman, A. S. (2020). Evaluation of a Policy, Systems, and Environmental-Focused Faith-Based Health Promotion Program. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 52(6), 640–645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2019.11.011
    Objective: This study assessed the impact and lessons learned from implementing policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes through Faithful Families Thriving Communities (Faithful Families), a faith-based health promotion...
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  • Evaluation of an extension-delivered resource for accelerating progress in childhood obesity prevention: The BEPA-toolkit

    2017 | Gunter, K. B., Nader, P. A., Armington, A., Hicks, J. C., & John, D. (2017). Evaluation of an Extension-Delivered Resource for Accelerating Progress in Childhood Obesity Prevention: The BEPA-Toolkit. The Journal of Extension, 55(2), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.55.02.23
    The Balanced Energy Physical Activity Toolkit, or the BEPA-Toolkit, supports physical activity (PA) programming via Extension in elementary schools. In a pilot study, we evaluated the effectiveness of the BEPA-Toolkit as used by...
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  • Evaluating the Benefits of a SNAP-Ed-Funded Community Garden Intervention Using Ripple Effect Mapping

    2022 | Sadeghzadeh, C., Sheppard, B., De Groot, J., & De Marco, M. (2022). Evaluating the Benefits of a SNAP-Ed-Funded Community Garden Intervention Using Ripple Effect Mapping. Health Education & Behavior, 49(1), 141–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981211058075
    In North Carolina, rural communities experience high rates of chronic illness due to health inequities exacerbated by the decline of major industries. Community gardens increase access to fresh produce and opportunities for physical...
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