Increasing Use of a Healthy Food Incentive: A Waiting Room Intervention Among Low-Income Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Diet-related disease is disproportionately concentrated in low-income communities where fruit and vegetable consumption is far below guidelines. To address financial barriers, Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB)-a statewide healthy food incentive-matches Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds spent at farmers markets. However, incentive use is limited. This study examined the impact of a brief waiting room-based intervention about DUFB on program utilization and produce consumption.

Study design

Longitudinal, repeated measures, quasi-experimental trial.

Setting/participants

SNAP-enrolled adults at a health center in a low-income, racially and ethnically diverse area of Southeast Michigan.

Intervention

Participants received a brief explanati

SUBMITTER: Cohen AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444808 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature