Objectives of community policies and programs associated with more healthful dietary intakes among children: findings from the Healthy Communities Study

Webb, Karen; Hewawitharana, Sridharshi; Au, L E; Collie‐Akers, Vicki; Strauss, Warren; Landgraf, Andrew J.; Nagaraja, Jyothi; Wilson, Dawn K.; Sagatov, R D F; Kao, Janice; Loria, Catherine M.; Fawcett, Stephen B.; Ritchie, Lorrene D.; Team, Healthy Communities Study

doi:10.1111/ijpo.12424

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“…Webb et al provide a further, in‐depth analysis based on which dietary behaviours were targeted and which environmental change strategies were used. They grouped strategies according to whether they aligned with the Common Community Measures for Obesity Prevention recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .…”

Section: Community Policies and Programmes And Dietary Behaviour Outcmentioning

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Supplement overview: what the Healthy Communities Study is telling us about childhood obesity prevention in U.S. communities

Kumanyika

2018

Pediatric Obesity

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Summary The Healthy Communities Study (HCS), conducted between 2010 and 2016, tells a real‐world story of how childhood obesity prevention efforts have unfolded in 130 U.S. communities. The study documented nearly 10,000 current and past community policies and programs (CPPs) and assessed dietary and physical activity behaviors, weight, height, and waist circumference of more than 5,000, 4‐ to 15‐year‐old children. The articles in this HCS supplement describe the variables created to characterize the CPPs, CPP relationships with children's behavioral and weight status, other analyses of interest, and recruitment challenges. Findings suggest that many of the strategies being implemented work as intended to improve children's behaviors and weight status. However, of concern, findings also indicate lesser reach to children in demographic groups at highest risk of obesity. Overall, the HCS insights can guide the next phase of efforts to strengthen existing CPPs and motivate other, novel approaches to combating childhood obesity.

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Section: Community Policies and Programmes And Dietary Behaviour Outcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplement overview: what the Healthy Communities Study is telling us about childhood obesity prevention in U.S. communities

Kumanyika

2018

Pediatric Obesity

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“…In recent years, few investigations have been undertaken to characterize these interventions in terms of their reach, type, scope, and intensity in order to enable examination of their association with targeted outcomes (Cheadle et al, 2018; Frongillo et al, 2017; Ritchie et al, 2018; Strauss et al, 2018; Webb et al, 2018). The lack of adequate evaluation methods for studies of multicomponent, complex interventions with a focus on changing environments may stem in part from challenges in measuring and monitoring these efforts and documenting exposure of target populations.…”

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Method for Scoring Dose of Multicomponent Interventions: A Building Block for Future Evaluations

Hewawitharana¹,

Kao²,

Rider³

et al. 2021

American Journal of Evaluation

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Schools are a critical setting for improving child nutrition and food security and preventing obesity in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education, known as CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) in California, implements obesity prevention efforts that utilize multicomponent policy, systems, and environmental change interventions supplemented with direct and indirect education. However, evaluation of these complex interventions has proven challenging due to a lack of established evaluation methods, particularly for comprehensively measuring the dose of multicomponent interventions. This article proposes and demonstrates a method to score the dose of multicomponent California Department of Public Health–funded CFHL school interventions received by children attending public schools, using administrative data collected by CFHL in California.

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Looking to the past: Investigating 10-year place histories as a determinant of home food environments in the Healthy Communities Study

Lang,

Kim,

Ritchie

et al. 2024

Social Science & Medicine

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Objectives of community policies and programs associated with more healthful dietary intakes among children: findings from the Healthy Communities Study

Abstract: CPPs that targeted decreases in intakes of less healthful foods and/or aimed to modify the availability of less healthful foods and portions were associated with healthier child dietary behaviours.

Cited by 4 publications

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Supplement overview: what the Healthy Communities Study is telling us about childhood obesity prevention in U.S. communities

Supplement overview: what the Healthy Communities Study is telling us about childhood obesity prevention in U.S. communities

Method for Scoring Dose of Multicomponent Interventions: A Building Block for Future Evaluations

Looking to the past: Investigating 10-year place histories as a determinant of home food environments in the Healthy Communities Study

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