TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and Implementation
T2 - B’More Healthy Communities for Kid’s Store and Wholesaler Intervention
AU - Schwendler, Teresa
AU - Shipley, Cara
AU - Budd, Nadine
AU - Trude, Angela
AU - Surkan, Pamela J.
AU - Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth
AU - de Morais Sato, Priscila
AU - Eckmann, Thomas
AU - Loh, Hong
AU - Gittelsohn, Joel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Society for Public Health Education.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Higher rates of obesity and obesity-related chronic disease are prevalent in communities where there is limited access to affordable, healthy food. The B’More Healthy Communities for Kids (BHCK) trial worked at multiple levels of the food environment including food wholesalers and corner stores to improve the surrounding community’s access to healthy food. The objective of this article is to describe the development and implementation of BHCK’s corner store and wholesaler interventions through formal process evaluation. Researchers evaluated each level of the intervention to assess reach, dose delivered, and fidelity. Corner store and wholesaler reach, dose delivered, and fidelity were measured by number of interactions, promotional materials distributed, and maintenance of study materials, respectively. Overall, the corner store implementation showed moderate reach, dose delivered, and high fidelity. The wholesaler intervention was implemented with high reach, dose, and fidelity. The program held 355 corner store interactive sessions and had 9,347 community member interactions, 21% of which were with children between the ages of 10 and 14 years. There was a 15% increase in corner store promoted food stocking during Wave 1 and a 17% increase during Wave 2. These findings demonstrate a successfully implemented food retailer intervention in a low-income urban setting.
AB - Higher rates of obesity and obesity-related chronic disease are prevalent in communities where there is limited access to affordable, healthy food. The B’More Healthy Communities for Kids (BHCK) trial worked at multiple levels of the food environment including food wholesalers and corner stores to improve the surrounding community’s access to healthy food. The objective of this article is to describe the development and implementation of BHCK’s corner store and wholesaler interventions through formal process evaluation. Researchers evaluated each level of the intervention to assess reach, dose delivered, and fidelity. Corner store and wholesaler reach, dose delivered, and fidelity were measured by number of interactions, promotional materials distributed, and maintenance of study materials, respectively. Overall, the corner store implementation showed moderate reach, dose delivered, and high fidelity. The wholesaler intervention was implemented with high reach, dose, and fidelity. The program held 355 corner store interactive sessions and had 9,347 community member interactions, 21% of which were with children between the ages of 10 and 14 years. There was a 15% increase in corner store promoted food stocking during Wave 1 and a 17% increase during Wave 2. These findings demonstrate a successfully implemented food retailer intervention in a low-income urban setting.
KW - chronic disease
KW - community intervention
KW - health education
KW - health promotion
KW - nutrition
KW - obesity
KW - process evaluation
KW - program planning and evaluation
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U2 - 10.1177/1524839917696716
DO - 10.1177/1524839917696716
M3 - Article
C2 - 28343413
AN - SCOPUS:85031795608
SN - 1524-8399
VL - 18
SP - 822
EP - 832
JO - Health promotion practice
JF - Health promotion practice
IS - 6
ER -