Sarah E. Roth, Marla Feldman, M. Schwartz, Michael L. Prelip
{"title":"A Mixed-methods Study of Nutrition-focused Food Banking in the United States","authors":"Sarah E. Roth, Marla Feldman, M. Schwartz, Michael L. Prelip","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2030272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2030272","url":null,"abstract":"Using an embedded mixed-methods approach, this study assesses efforts to improve nutritional quality of inventory at food banks. All else equal, food banks with medium and high levels of nutrition-focused food banking strategy adoption had lower mean percentages of unhealthy inventory compared to those with none. Despite positive progress in the charitable food system as a whole, national key stakeholders identified several challenges, including cost and donor reliance, in continuing this work. Findings highlight the significant progress of food banks to adopt nutrition-focused strategies and distribute healthier foods and underscore the role these strategies may have in shaping inventory quality.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86359577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Orthodox and Unorthodox Food Acquisition Practices and Coping Strategies Used by Food Insecure Adults: A Scoping Review","authors":"Michelle Watson, S. Booth, S. Velardo, J. Coveney","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.2021121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.2021121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75012479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanzina Ahmed, R. Ilieva, J. Shane, S. Reader, Charmaine Aleong, Ho Yan Wong, Caitlin Chu, Daniel Brusche, Karen Jiang, Daniel Lopez, Anita Yan
{"title":"A Developing Crisis in Hunger: Food Insecurity within 3 Public Colleges before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Tanzina Ahmed, R. Ilieva, J. Shane, S. Reader, Charmaine Aleong, Ho Yan Wong, Caitlin Chu, Daniel Brusche, Karen Jiang, Daniel Lopez, Anita Yan","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2026853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2026853","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity increased across the United States, with college students being particularly vulnerable. This study surveyed 1989 undergraduates attending three public colleges before and during the first year of the pandemic. At all times, students’ food insecurity was related to worse academic performance, greater housing insecurity, poorer psychological and physical health, and less access to healthcare. Compared to pre-pandemic students, during-pandemic students reported greater use of and fewer barriers to food programs, spending more on and and receiving more government aid for food, experiencing more academic difficulties due to food insecurity, having greater housing insecurity, and enduring less access to healthcare.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"16 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89473930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WIC Participation and Dietary Quality among US Children: Impact of the 2009 Food Package Revision.","authors":"Kelin Li, Jessie X Fan, Ming Wen, Qi Zhang","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2022.2070444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2070444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the WIC program at improving children's dietary quality and to evaluate whether the 2009 food benefit revision further improved the WIC program. A sample of 1,753 children aged between 2 to 4 years from the 2005-2008 and 2011-2016 NHANES was analyzed using a propensity score weighted difference-in-difference approach. Results show that WIC-participating children scored 2.98 points higher (SD: 0.89; <i>P</i><0.01) in HEI-2015 total scores compared with income-eligible non-participants during 2011-2016. No significant change was observed in the differences of HEI-2015 scores between WIC participants and eligible non-participants from 2005-2008 to 2011-2016.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 4","pages":"445-459"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910511/pdf/nihms-1862189.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9715823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eliza Short, Lindsay N Kohler, Douglas Taren, Rhonda Gonzalez, Denise J Roe, Melanie Hingle
{"title":"Diet Quality Following Food Pantry Visit Differs by Ethnicity.","authors":"Eliza Short, Lindsay N Kohler, Douglas Taren, Rhonda Gonzalez, Denise J Roe, Melanie Hingle","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2020.1860849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2020.1860849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Food insecurity is associated with poor diet quality and increased diet-related disease risk. Food pantry clients (n=194) completed one 24-hour dietary recall and the Healthy Eating Index-2015 was used to evaluate diet quality. Differences in diet quality relative to participants' last food pantry visit and self-reported ethnicity were evaluated using two-way ANOVA. Food pantry visits within 1-4 days compared to ≥5 days were associated with higher diet quality in non-Hispanics (<i>p</i>=0.01) but diet quality remained the same in Hispanics. Interventions to improve diet quality in food pantry users must consider potential ethnic differences when program planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 1","pages":"69-84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19320248.2020.1860849","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10459039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher R Long, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Brett Rowland, Bonnie Faitak, Mary M Bailey, Joel Gittelsohn, Caitlin E Caspi, Jill Niemeier, Emily S English, Pearl A McElfish
{"title":"Food Pantry Usage Patterns are Associated with Client Sociodemographics and Health.","authors":"Christopher R Long, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Brett Rowland, Bonnie Faitak, Mary M Bailey, Joel Gittelsohn, Caitlin E Caspi, Jill Niemeier, Emily S English, Pearl A McElfish","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.2001404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.2001404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Characterizing food pantry (FP) clients' FP usage patterns may provide opportunities to tailor health-related interventions. Respondents (n=245) at seven FPs reported their frequency and reliance on FPs and their sociodemographics, health status, and health-related trade-offs. Clients were categorized via latent class analysis. Higher FP usage was associated with being older, having a household member with heart disease, and putting off buying medicine to buy food. Lower FP usage was associated with higher levels of education and having a household member with cancer. Findings highlight the potential importance of measuring FP clients' degree of FP use.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 3","pages":"408-424"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9355513/pdf/nihms-1766949.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10807833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher R Long, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Mary M Bailey, Brett Rowland, Emily English, Pearl A McElfish
{"title":"Food insecurity and chronic diseases among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the US: results of a population-based survey.","authors":"Christopher R Long, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Mary M Bailey, Brett Rowland, Emily English, Pearl A McElfish","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.1873883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.1873883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data from the 2014 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) National Health Interview Survey were used to examine associations between food security and individual chronic diseases, total number of chronic diseases, and general health status among 637 NHPI adults with income below 200 percent federal poverty level. Very low food security was associated with hypertension, diabetes, and asthma. Very low food security and marginal food security were associated with having any chronic disease and with having a higher number of chronic diseases. Risk for food insecurity increased as health status decreased. These associations had not previously been documented for NHPI.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 1","pages":"53-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19320248.2021.1873883","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10450500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean A McDougall, Shoshana Adler Jaffe, Dolores D Guest, Andrew L Sussman
{"title":"The Balance Between Food and Medical Care: Experiences of Food Insecurity Among Cancer Survivors and Informal Caregivers.","authors":"Jean A McDougall, Shoshana Adler Jaffe, Dolores D Guest, Andrew L Sussman","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.1892295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.1892295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Defined as an inability to acquire enough food because of insufficient money or other resources, the prevalence of food insecurity is markedly higher among cancer survivors than the general population. The objective of this qualitative study was to understand and characterize the experience of food insecurity from the perspective of cancer survivors' and their informal caregivers using qualitative interviews. Barriers to healthy eating, behaviors and strategies in times of food shortage, and unmet educational needs shaped the experience of food insecurity. These experiences and insights for addressing food insecurity in oncology practice have broad implications for future interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 3","pages":"380-396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19320248.2021.1892295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10825834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caitlin E Caspi, Molly De Marco, Emily Welle, Claire Sadeghzadeh, Leah Chapman, Lisa J Harnack, Rebekah Pratt
{"title":"A qualitative analysis of SNAP and minimum wage policies as experienced by workers with lower incomes.","authors":"Caitlin E Caspi, Molly De Marco, Emily Welle, Claire Sadeghzadeh, Leah Chapman, Lisa J Harnack, Rebekah Pratt","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.1997859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.1997859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Work-related policies, including minimum wage and food assistance work requirements, can affect food security for people with lower incomes. This study conducted 112 qualitative interviews to understand participant policy experiences in two contexts (Raleigh, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota). Participants experienced frequent, destabilizing changes to their United States Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which they identified as part of a broader safety net. Raleigh workers described an unsupportive policy environment; Minneapolis workers reaped few benefits from an ongoing wage increase. Many workers face complex financial tradeoffs; more sophisticated evaluations should consider broader policy contexts and long-range effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"17 4","pages":"521-539"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477082/pdf/nihms-1766674.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10451030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Savoie-Roskos, Caleb N. Harrison, C. Coombs, Jackie Hendrickson, Rachel Hawes, Madison Barney, Jamie Doxey, H. LeBlanc
{"title":"Food Insecurity Exists among College Students at a Midsized University in Utah","authors":"M. Savoie-Roskos, Caleb N. Harrison, C. Coombs, Jackie Hendrickson, Rachel Hawes, Madison Barney, Jamie Doxey, H. LeBlanc","doi":"10.1080/19320248.2021.2022367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2021.2022367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the prevalence of and identified characteristics associated with food insecurity among students at a midsized university in Utah. A cross-sectional survey of university students (n = 952) was conducted. Nearly 33% (n = 302) of students experienced food insecurity in the past 30 days. A weak, yet significant association was found between food security status and gender, marital status, year in school, employment, use of food assistance, use of other assistance, use of the on-campus food pantry, and parental education level. There is a need for increased awareness of on-campus programs and policies aimed at reducing food insecurity among college students.","PeriodicalId":51621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition","volume":"154 1","pages":"36 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78521021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}