Project FIT: A School, Community and Social Marketing Intervention Improves Healthy Eating Among Low-Income Elementary School Children
- Authors
- Alaimo, Katherine; Carlson, Joseph J.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Eisenmann, Joey C.; Paek, Hye-Jin; Betz, Heather H.; Thompson, Tracy; Wen, Yalu; Norman, Gregory J.
- Issue Date
- Aug-2015
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- School intervention; Nutrition; Diet; Social marketing; Community-based health promotion
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH, v.40, no.4, pp.815 - 826
- Indexed
- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
- Volume
- 40
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 815
- End Page
- 826
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/17459
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10900-015-0005-5
- ISSN
- 0094-5145
- Abstract
- Project FIT was a two-year multi-component nutrition and physical activity intervention delivered in ethnically-diverse low-income elementary schools in Grand Rapids, MI. This paper reports effects on children's nutrition outcomes and process evaluation of the school component. A quasi-experimental design was utilized. 3rd, 4th and 5th-grade students (Yr 1 baseline: N = 410; Yr 2 baseline: N = 405; age range: 7.5-12.6 years) were measured in the fall and spring over the two-year intervention. Ordinal logistic, mixed effect models and generalized estimating equations were fitted, and the robust standard errors were utilized. Primary outcomes favoring the intervention students were found regarding consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grain bread during year 2. Process evaluation revealed that implementation of most intervention components increased during year 2. Project FIT resulted in small but beneficial effects on consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grain bread in ethnically diverse low-income elementary school children.
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