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Process evaluation of an environmental and educational nutrition intervention in residential drug-treatment facilities

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Cowan, Jennifer A, Devine, Carol M·2012·Public Health Nutrition

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the implementation of a controlled, 6-week, environmental and educational intervention to improve dietary intake and body composition, and to study the association of implementation fidelity with diet and body composition outcomes. DESIGN: A process evaluation documented participation, dose of nutrition education delivered, participant satisfaction, fidelity and completeness of the food environment intervention implementation, and context through observations and interviews with staff and residents. Intervention sites were scored and categorized as high or low participation and implementation and compared on essential elements of the food environment and on diet and body composition outcomes. SETTING: Six urban residential drug-treatment facilities in Upstate New York. SUBJECTS: Fifty-five primarily black and white men in residential drug-treatment programmes. RESULTS: Participants were exposed to 94 % and 69 % of the educational and environmental elements, respectively. High implementation sites were significantly more likely to provide water and 100 % juice, offer fruit or vegetable salad, offer choices of fruits and vegetables, and limit fried foods. Mixed-model analysis of covariance revealed that participants in the high participation and implementation sites reported greater reductions in total energy, percentage of energy from sweets, daily servings of fats, oils and sweets, and BMI over the intervention period. Participants in low participation and implementation sites reported greater reductions in percentage of energy from fat. Differential implementation of environmental elements limited the intervention impact. CONCLUSIONS: These findings document the contribution of changes in eating environments to facilitate dietary behaviour change in community residential substance-abuse settings.

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Authors
Cowan, J. A., & Devine, C. M.
Affiliations
Cornell University (US)
Corresponding author
Devine, Carol M
Venue
Public Health Nutrition
Published
2012-04-04
Volume
15
Issue
7
Pages
1159-1167
ISSN
  • 1368-9800 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-2727
OpenAlex
W2003966795
Cited by
70
References
42
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
1.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Public Health Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Keywords
nutrition education, food environment, implementation fidelity, dietary intake, body composition, substance use disorders, dietary behavior change, intervention participation, energy intake
MeSH terms
Adult, Anthropometry, Body Composition, Energy Intake, Choice Behavior, Diet, Feeding Behavior, Fruit, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Nutritional Status, Socioeconomic Factors, Vegetables, Nutritional Sciences

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