Showing papers in "Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in 2002"

TL;DR: Options available to content analysts--from manual to fully computerized are reviewed, recommended because of their usefulness in the information-based messaging discipline of nutrition education.

TL;DR: Examining changes, between 1977-78 and 1994-96, in the quantity and quality of food Americans consumed that was prepared at home versus away from home found that "away" food was higher in total fat and saturated fat on a per-calorie basis than at-home food.

TL;DR: Two major conclusions from this review are that evaluation measures should be appropriate to the purpose, duration, and power of the intervention and that measures should have adequate validity and reliability in relation to both the outcomes and characteristics of the target audience.

TL;DR: The concept of identity may help researchers understand food choice processes and assist practitioners in recognizing the multiple meanings that people bring to and derive from eating.

TL;DR: It is found that nutrition education messages for mothers should emphasize the importance of early food-related experiences to school-aged children's acceptance of a variety of vegetables and fruits.

TL;DR: Investigation of psychosocial and demographic variables associated with consumer intention to purchase sustainably produced foods using an expanded Theory of Planned Behavior found consumers were supportive of sustainablyproduced foods but not highly confident in their ability to purchase them.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that multiple attitudinal, normative, and control factors influence healthful dietary behavior in adolescents and the synergistic use of these factors in the development and implementation of nutrition education interventions may assist in the promotion of healthful eating among teens from culturally diverse communities.

TL;DR: In response to unexpectedly high rates of household food insecurity in Washington State, focus groups were conducted with food pantry users to explore access and barriers to food, strategies for coping with food insecurity, and nutrition education needs.

TL;DR: Data from observations and interviews are used to document fourth-graders' preferences for, and consumption of, fruits compared to vegetables available as part of school lunches to understand how to increase children's preferences for vegetables as a means of increasing consumption.

TL;DR: Cues to action were positively related to perceived threat of foodborne illness and safe food-handling behaviors and the HBM is a useful framework for examining food- handling behaviors among older adults.

TL;DR: Compared with children in non-USBP schools, those in the USBP schools were less likely to wish they were thinner, to go on a diet, or skip breakfast because it might make them fat and more likely to believe that eating breakfast will give them energy and help them pay attention.

TL;DR: A retrospective cost-benefit study using demographic, food/nutrient intake, and food-related behavioral data previously collected on program participants by trained paraprofessionals, before and after an intervention to provide an estimated cost- benefit ratio for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).

TL;DR: The study highlights the need for health professionals to consider the different value systems of target groups in health promotion policies and the impact of "New Age" beliefs and the Human Genome Project on public health nutrition are two areas that particularly merit further research.

TL;DR: The dietary intakes and related behaviors, as well as the food security status, of lower- and higher-income elderly are examined and major US government food and nutrition assistance programs that can be of benefit to the elderly are reviewed.

TL;DR: Nutritionists can use the findings to enhance the informative value of food insecurity and hunger statistics from national, state, and local surveys when interpreting them to policy makers and to the general public.

TL;DR: The purpose of this research was to describe the criteria preschool children use to classify foods and their interpretation of their daily food experiences, which may be used to develop a play-based nutrition education program.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Transtheoretical Model was applied to eating and exercise behaviors through the administration of a cross-sectional survey, and the authors determined whether exercise is a potential gateway behavior for healthful eating behavior among older adults.

TL;DR: To improve calcium intake among teens, interventions should include a family component, stress the benefits of milk for girls, and focus on breakfast.

TL;DR: The TN process evaluation identified multiple ideas for pursuing partnerships more successfully and the importance of local coordinators to support and create a bridge between teachers and cafeteria staff and to forge links with key external partners.

TL;DR: To determine rural women's perceptions about cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and behavior change for cardiovascular health, a trained moderator and nutritionist (observer) led the groups and a discussion guide was developed from the Health Belief Model and Social Cognitive Theory.

TL;DR: It is suggested that it is time to keep pace with recent findings and develop national and state-sponsored programs that will provide nutrition education and information transference to older people in the communities.

TL;DR: Whether children's books affect attitudes and behaviors pertaining to an unfamiliar vegetable, kohlrabi, is investigated to determine whether the results generalize to other foods and/or other children.

TL;DR: The concepts and observations described in this Special Article stimulate consideration of the motivational aspects of online courses in practice, research, and institutional policy making.

TL;DR: Internet dietary assessment tools could be a feasible assessment tool for older women to self-administer and examine the feasibility of older women using the Web version of the 1998 Block Health Habits and History Questionnaire.

TL;DR: The results support using IMM to disseminate nutrition education to the target population and the feasibility of using computer-based questionnaires to evaluate the effectiveness of IMM nutrition education programs.

TL;DR: To learn how couples stratified by gender role preference (GRP) manage food preferences, a one-time individual semistructured qualitative interview with each partner in a couple representing 1 of 3 GRP pairings was conducted.

TL;DR: Over time, the number of treatment group participants who had at least one serving from each food group, and who had the recommended number of servings from eachfood group, significantly increased in comparison to the control group, while the dietary nutrient density of calcium, riboflavin, and vitamin B6 significantly improved over time.

TL;DR: The study suggests that CNS managers were receptive to the role of trainer, CNS participants were satisfied with this method, and the acceptability of managers as trainers did not vary with participants' levels of risk of malnutrition.

TL;DR: The shelf inventory is a sensitive, specific, and valid tool for assessing household food purchases and can be used to evaluate food choice interventions among older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.