Stephanie Bell Jilcott Pitts1, Qiang Wu2, Jared T McGuirt3, Patricia A Sharpe4, Ann P Rafferty5. 1. Department of Public Health, East Carolina University, Greenville NC. Electronic address: jilcotts@ecu.edu. 2. Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University, Greenville NC. 3. Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. 4. Prevention Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. 5. Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine (1) the association of a new supermarket opening with dietary intake and perceptions of healthy food availability, and (2) associations of distance to the primary food store and mean prices of fruits, vegetables, and sugary beverages with levels of consumption of these foods and body mass index in a low-income, southeastern community. METHODS: The researchers used cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire data and supermarket audit data collected in the supermarket community and comparison community before (2015) and after (2016) the supermarket opening. A difference-in-difference analysis employed propensity scores to compare pretest and posttest differences between communities. RESULTS: There were no significant differences between communities on dietary behaviors. There was a significant cross-sectional, inverse association between distance to the primary food store and fruit and vegetable consumption among all respondents in 2016. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: The results suggest that adding a new discount supermarket is not necessarily associated with improvements in residents' fruit, vegetable, or sugary beverage consumption, or in their perceptions of the availability of healthy food in the neighborhood. However, distance to the store may be important.
OBJECTIVE: To examine (1) the association of a new supermarket opening with dietary intake and perceptions of healthy food availability, and (2) associations of distance to the primary food store and mean prices of fruits, vegetables, and sugary beverages with levels of consumption of these foods and body mass index in a low-income, southeastern community. METHODS: The researchers used cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire data and supermarket audit data collected in the supermarket community and comparison community before (2015) and after (2016) the supermarket opening. A difference-in-difference analysis employed propensity scores to compare pretest and posttest differences between communities. RESULTS: There were no significant differences between communities on dietary behaviors. There was a significant cross-sectional, inverse association between distance to the primary food store and fruit and vegetable consumption among all respondents in 2016. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: The results suggest that adding a new discount supermarket is not necessarily associated with improvements in residents' fruit, vegetable, or sugary beverage consumption, or in their perceptions of the availability of healthy food in the neighborhood. However, distance to the store may be important.
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