The Healthy Communities Study Nutrition Assessments: Child Diet and the School Nutrition Environment.

ABSTRACT: Multifaceted community interventions directed at improving food environments are emerging, but their impact on dietary change and obesity prevalence has not been adequately documented. The Healthy Communities Study (HCS) is seeking to identify characteristics and combinations of programs and policies that are associated with children's diets and obesity-related outcomes in various types of communities across the U.S. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods used in 2013-2015 in the HCS to assess dietary intake, school nutrition environments, and other nutrition-related behaviors. The conceptual framework of the HCS is based on the socioecological model and behaviors shown in previous studies to be related to obesity in children guided selection of domains. Nine domains were ide

SUBMITTER: Ritchie LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4575770 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature