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Objective: The present study evaluated the restaurant and dining venues on and near post-secondary campuses varying in institution size. Design: The Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Restaurants (NEMS-R) was modified to evaluate restaurants as fast food, sit down and fast casual; and campus dining venues as dining halls, student unions and snack bar/cafés. ANOVA with post hoc Tukey's B and T tests were used to distinguish differences between dining venues and associated institutions by size. Setting: The study was conducted at fifteen US post-secondary institutions, 2009-2011. Subjects: Data presented are from a sample of 175 restaurants and sixty-eight on-campus dining venues. Results: There were minimal differences in dining halls by institution size, although medium-sized institutions as compared with small-sized institutions offered significantly more healthful side dish/salad bar items. Dining halls scored significantly higher than student unions or snack bar/cafés on healthful entrées, side dish/salad bar and beverages offerings, but they also had the most barriers to healthful dietary habits (i.e. all-you-can-eat). No differences were found by restaurant type for NEMS-R scores for total restaurant dining environment or healthful entrées and barriers. Snack bars had more healthful side dishes (P 5 0?002) and fast-food restaurants had the highest level of facilitators (i.e. nutrition information; P 5 0?002). Conclusions: Based on this evaluation in fifteen institutions, the full campus dining environment provides limited support for healthy eating and obesity prevention. The quality of campus dining environments can be improved via healthful offerings, providing nutrition information and other supports to facilitate healthy eating and prevent unwanted weight gain.

Objective: Re-framing childhood obesity prevention. Description: Obesity is typically framed as a lifestyle issue, with individual behavior change, and individual motivation as the primary solutions. Funders are encouraging communities to create policy, systems, and environmental changes (PSE). To be effective at this, community coalitions need to be able re-frame obesity prevention as a social problem. Evaluation: We used Q methodologies, participatory capacity building, photo voice, and other participatory research methods to catalyze and examine re-framing in partner communities. Conclusions and Implications: Childhood obesity prevention through PSE requires that communities have the capacity to re-frame to motivate collective action.Objective: To develop a community-based program that targets overweight and obesity prevention among adolescents in limited resource, minority communities. S194 USDA NIFA Poster Abstracts

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