Development and evaluation of the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Efforts to improve the nutritional quality and health promotion in the charitable food system have been undertaken. Though methods exist to track these efforts in terms of food banks' inventory, there are not research-tested tools to assess, monitor and influence policy, systems and environmental (PSE) changes. The study objective was to develop and evaluate a novel assessment tool that could be used to evaluate a food bank's efforts to improve the promotion of health and nutritious foods.

Design

The study had five phases: (1) initial development; (2) iterative review and revisions; (3) pilot testing; (4) content validity assessment and (5) inter-rater and test-retest assessment. The Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment (FB-HANA) was drafted after reviewing ex

SUBMITTER: Nguyen CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature