One-Year Follow-Up Examination of the Impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program on Healthy Food Availability, Purchases, and Consumption
Author
Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B; Wu, Qiang; Truesdale, Kimberly P.; Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey; McGuirt, Jared T.; Ammerman, Alice S.; Bell, Ronny A.; Laska, Melissa N.
Abstract
We examined the short-term impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program (HFSRP), a legislatively appropriated bill providing funding up to $25,000 to small food retailers for equipment to stock and promote healthier foods, on store-level availability and purchase of healthy foods and beverages, as well as customer dietary patterns, one year post-policy implementation. We evaluated healthy food availability using a validated audit tool, purchases using customer bag-checks, and diet using self-reported questionnaires and skin carotenoid levels, assessed via Veggie Meter™, a non-invasive tool to objectively measure fruit and vegetable consumption. Difference-in-difference analyses were used to examine changes in HFSRP stores versus control stores after 1 year. There were statistically significant improvements in healthy food supply scores (availability), with the Healthy Food Supply HFS score being −0.44 points lower in control stores and 3.13 points higher in HFSRP stores pre/post HFSRP (p = 0.04). However, there were no statistically significant changes in purchases or self-reported consumption or skin carotenoids among customers in HFSRP versus control stores. Additional time or other supports for retailers (e.g., marketing and promotional materials) may be needed for HFSRP implementation to influence purchase and consumption.
Date
2018-11-28
Citation:
APA:
Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B, & Wu, Qiang, & Truesdale, Kimberly P., & Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey, & McGuirt, Jared T., & Ammerman, Alice S., & Bell, Ronny A., & Laska, Melissa N.. (November 2018).
One-Year Follow-Up Examination of the Impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program on Healthy Food Availability, Purchases, and Consumption.
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MLA:
Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B, and Wu, Qiang, and Truesdale, Kimberly P., and Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey, and McGuirt, Jared T., and Ammerman, Alice S., and Bell, Ronny A., and Laska, Melissa N..
"One-Year Follow-Up Examination of the Impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program on Healthy Food Availability, Purchases, and Consumption". .
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November 2018.
December 11, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7765.
Chicago:
Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B and Wu, Qiang and Truesdale, Kimberly P. and Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey and McGuirt, Jared T. and Ammerman, Alice S. and Bell, Ronny A. and Laska, Melissa N.,
"One-Year Follow-Up Examination of the Impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program on Healthy Food Availability, Purchases, and Consumption," , no.
(November 2018),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7765 (accessed
December 11, 2023).
AMA:
Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B, Wu, Qiang, Truesdale, Kimberly P., Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey, McGuirt, Jared T., Ammerman, Alice S., Bell, Ronny A., Laska, Melissa N..
One-Year Follow-Up Examination of the Impact of the North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program on Healthy Food Availability, Purchases, and Consumption. .
November 2018;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7765. Accessed
December 11, 2023.
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