Elizabeth Anderson Steeves1, Angela Cristina Bizzotto Trude2, Cara Frances Ruggiero3, Maria Jose Mejia Ruiz4, Jessica C Jones-Smith5, Keshia Pollack Porter6, Lawrence Cheskin7, Kristen Hurley2, Laura Hopkins8, Joel Gittelsohn2. 1. Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2. Center for Human Nutrition and the Global Obesity Prevention Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 3. Center for Childhood Obesity Research, The Pennsylvania State University. 4. YMCA of Greater Richmond. 5. School of Public Health, University of Washington. 6. Department of Health Policy and Management and the Global Obesity Prevention Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 7. Department of Health Behavior and Society and the Global Obesity Prevention Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 8. Department of Human Sciences, Ohio State University.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a youth-led nutrition intervention on youth-leaders themselves. DESIGN: Mixed methods, including: in-depth interviews and a quasi-experimental quantitative study comparing youth-leaders and nonparticipant comparison youth. ANALYSIS: Qualitative analysis using direct content analysis. Difference-in-differences analyses assessing quantitative program impact. RESULTS: Youth-leaders perceived that the intervention impacted themselves, the youth-participants, and their respective social networks. Youth-leaders experienced greater increases in intentions to eat healthfully (p=0.04), and greater decreases in support for healthy eating from their friends (p=0.01), than the comparison group. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS: Youth-leaders reported multiple levels of intervention impact, and increased intentions for healthy eating; however, additional research is needed to enhance impact on behavioral outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a youth-led nutrition intervention on youth-leaders themselves. DESIGN: Mixed methods, including: in-depth interviews and a quasi-experimental quantitative study comparing youth-leaders and nonparticipant comparison youth. ANALYSIS: Qualitative analysis using direct content analysis. Difference-in-differences analyses assessing quantitative program impact. RESULTS: Youth-leaders perceived that the intervention impacted themselves, the youth-participants, and their respective social networks. Youth-leaders experienced greater increases in intentions to eat healthfully (p=0.04), and greater decreases in support for healthy eating from their friends (p=0.01), than the comparison group. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS: Youth-leaders reported multiple levels of intervention impact, and increased intentions for healthy eating; however, additional research is needed to enhance impact on behavioral outcomes.
Authors: Priscila M Sato; Elizabeth A Steeves; Susan Carnell; Lawrence J Cheskin; Angela C Trude; Cara Shipley; M J Mejía Ruiz; Joel Gittelsohn Journal: Health Educ Res Date: 2016-03-02
Authors: Angela Cb Trude; Pamela J Surkan; Elizabeth Anderson Steeves; Keshia Pollack Porter; Joel Gittelsohn Journal: Public Health Nutr Date: 2018-11-22 Impact factor: 4.022
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