The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program’s Impact on Graduates’ Quality of Life

Auld, Garry; Baker, Susan; Hernández-Garbanzo, Yenory; Infante, Natalia; Inglis-Widrick, Ruth; Procter, Sam; Yerxa, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2018.07.021

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“…(25,85) Our results demonstrated that the majority of articles meeting our inclusion criteria assessed African Americans' satisfaction with interventions consisting of nutrition education alone. Though nutrition education such as that provided by SNAP-Ed and EFNEP has been shown to improve reported food insecurity and overall quality of life, (86)(87)(88) education alone is less likely to result in long-term positive health behaviours compared with PSE change interventions and will not be sufficient to address structural racism in African Americans' food environment. Sociologists have identified differences in social and economic resources, such as wealth, income, education and occupational status, as a "fundamental cause" of health disparities.…”

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African Americans’ perceptions of nutrition interventions: a scoping review

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Nutrition education and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions may be able to address food insecurity and obesity, conditions which are disproportionately experienced by African Americans. Work that seeks to address these disparities and advance social justice should uplift and learn from participant voices, particularly from marginalized groups. This scoping review aimed to summarize the available literature describing African Americans’ perceptions of and experiences participating in nutrition interventions. We conducted an electronic literature search with the assistance of a research librarian which encompassed 6 databases (MEDLINE, PyscINFO, Agricola, ERIC, SocINDEX, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) and identified 35 sources meeting our inclusion criteria. The majority of studies assessing African Americans’ satisfaction with interventions examined educational interventions alone, and about half of the included studies assessed satisfaction through quantitative methods alone. The only studies which found participants to be dissatisfied with interventions used qualitative methods and examined interventions providing education alone. Future work should evaluate African Americans’ experience with nutrition-focused PSE changes, interventions which may be better able to address racial disparities in obesity and food insecurity. Nutrition educators working with African Americans should also consider evaluating future interventions using qualitative inquiry, to obtain an in-depth understanding of participant experiences with interventions.

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