The California Nutrition Incentive Program: Participants' Perceptions and Associations with Produce Purchases, Consumption, and Food Security.

ABSTRACT: We examined the associations of a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) point-of-purchase financial incentive program at farmers' markets with produce purchase, consumption, and food security outcomes. We conducted cross-sectional, interviewer-administered intercept surveys with 325 adult SNAP participants at six incentive programs, five comparison farmers' markets, and nine comparison supermarkets in California in the summer of 2018. The program provided dollar-for-dollar point-of-purchase incentives with $10 or $20 maximum at participating farmers' markets. We measured produce consumption by an NCI screener; food security by the USDA 6-item screener; and program satisfaction with open-ended questions asked of a subsample. The quantitative analysis involved multilevel linear an

SUBMITTER: Gosliner W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9268255 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature