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Patterns, Food Choices, and Health Outcomes |
The Associations Among Food Assistance Program
Participation, Food Security, and Child and Maternal Health Disparities
John Cook
Boston Medical Center Corp. Boston, MA
Young children presenting for medical care at inner-city hospital
emergency rooms and acute-care clinics comprise a "sentinel"
population in the epidemiological and public health sense. These
children can provide early information on impacts of recent changes
made in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), Aid to Families with Dependent
Children/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other social
welfare policies and programs that affect low-income families and
young children. This study will use existing data from a multisite,
multiyear clinical pediatric research project. Multivariate logistic
regression models will be estimated to examine the associations
among food assistance program participation, food security and health
outcomes in children three years or younger.
Cooperative Research Agreement: $108,981
Development of Eating Patterns and Dietary Behaviors
that Predict Child Obesity
Barbara Anne Dennison
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. Cooperstown, NY
This study uses a unique sample of adult/child pairs from a low-income,
multi-ethnic population of participants in the New York State WIC
program, who were surveyed during 1999-2000. Survey data include
information on eating patterns and parent characteristic behaviors
that have been associated with child obesity. Because these children
have their height and weight routinely measured by WIC staff every
six months, there is an opportunity to follow these children prospectively
to assess changes in adiposity over time. The study will evaluate
the extent to which specific factors are prospectively related to
the incidence, remission, and/or persistence of obesity.
Grant: $306,641
Lifestyle Mediators of Diet Quality
Pamela Haines
University of North Carolina School of Public Health and School
of Medicine.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
The overall objective of this project is to develop a set of consumer
lifestyle patterns that can be used to explain differences in diet
quality and diet-related health outcomes. These lifestyle patterns
will reflect combinations of food consumption and other lifestyle
behaviors, in particular, use of dietary supplements, among adult
Americans. The project will use data from the Third National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).
Cooperative Research Agreement: $ 199,994
Impact of Food Sufficiency on Food Choices of
Low-Income Children
Betsy Haughton
University of Tennessee. Knoxville, TN
This project will examine the relationships of food sufficiency,
diet quality, and food consumption patterns among children 2- to
8-years-old living in households with incomes less than or equal
to 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Children's eating pattern
typologies will be identified using cluster analysis and differences
by household food sufficiency status will be determined. The project
will explore the impact of coping strategies on adequacy, diversity,
and dietary patterns of children income-eligible for food assistance
as household food sufficiency status decreases.
Grant: $ 48,581
Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Adequacy: Does
Variety Matter?
Suzanne Murphy
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Honolulu, HI
The goal of this study is to determine if a measure of dietary
variety increases the ability of currently used dietary quality
indexes to predict nutrient adequacy and body mass index (BMI).
National survey data from the 1994-96, 1998 Continuing Survey of
Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) will be used to develop nutrient
adequacy variables based on the new Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs).
Variables representing dietary patterns, including dietary variety,
will be developed using two new databases, the Food Commodity Intake
Database from EPA/USDA, and the Pyramid Servings Database from USDA.
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $ 200,000
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Education: Public and Private Returns to Information |
Evaluating Changes in WIC Participant
Food Purchasing as a Result of WIC Nutrition Education
Loren Bell
Health Systems Research, Inc. Washington, DC
The study will use point-of-purchase data from grocery stores in
Washington State to examine changes in WIC participant shopping
behavior (for WIC foods) after the implementation of local nutrition
education interventions designed to change purchasing behaviors
(for WIC foods). Working with the Washington State WIC program,
the study will combine point-of-purchase data from grocery stores
with WIC administrative records to examine changes in WIC participant
purchasing behavior (for WIC foods) after implementation of local
nutrition education interventions designed to change purchasing
behaviors for WIC foods.
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $ 260,187
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