Participation in the Georgia Food for Health programme and CVD risk factors: a longitudinal observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the relationship between programme attendance in a produce prescription (PRx) programme and changes in cardiovascular risk factors.

Design

The Georgia Food for Health (GF4H) programme provided six monthly nutrition education sessions, six weekly cooking classes and weekly produce vouchers. Participants became programme graduates attending at least 4 of the 6 of both the weekly cooking classes and monthly education sessions. We used a longitudinal, single-arm approach to estimate the association between the number of monthly programme visits attended and changes in health indicators.

Setting

GF4H was implemented in partnership with a large safety-net health system in Atlanta, GA.

Participants

Three hundred thirty-one participants living with

SUBMITTER: Cook MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10641606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature