Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Predicting Food Assistance Stigma [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThe stigma associated with food assistance can be a barrier to resolving food insecurity. Self-reliance expectations likely contribute to this stigma. Aim: This cross-sectional study identified factors that predict perceptions of food assistance stigma ...
Frances Hardin-Fanning +2 more
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?People Like Us?: News Coverage of Food Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Health Equity, 2022 Objective: To understand how the public discourse around food assistance and social responsibility evolved during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing news coverage.
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021 The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted health, economy, and food systems across the United States. This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between food access worries, food assistance use, and purchasing behaviors and food ...
Lauren A. Clay, Stephanie Rogus
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?Those Who Need It the Most?: Equity Framing in 2021 U.S. Print News About Food Assistance [PDF]
Health Equity, 2023 Objective: To understand how equity appeared in news about food assistance from 2021. Methods: We assessed a national sample of news articles (N=298) for equity arguments and language about racial and health equity.
Mahmood H +9 more
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BMI Was Maintained Among Women with Low Incomes in Indiana Who Participated in Food Assistance and/or Federal Nutrition Education Over 1 Year [PDF]
Current Developments in NutritionBackground: Longer-term (≥1 y) associations between federal food assistance and federal nutrition education with BMI are unclear. Objectives: This exploratory study determined the relationship of participation in a federal nutrition education ...
Yue Qin +5 more
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Food insecurity, food assistance, and physical and cognitive functioning among older Americans. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIntroductionFood insecurity is associated with adverse late-life health outcomes, including disability, dementia, and mortality. But its role in changes in physical and cognitive functioning remains unclear, as does the impact of food assistance ...
Usha Dhakal +2 more
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Association between early-pandemic food assistance use and subsequent food security trajectories among households in Washington State during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundResearch on COVID-19's impact on food insecurity has primarily relied on cross-sectional data or long recall periods, with limited investigations into longitudinal patterns or the role of food assistance.MethodsWe analyzed longitudinal data ...
James H Buszkiewicz +7 more
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Exploring the associations of food and financial insecurity and food assistance with breastfeeding practices among first-time mothers [PDF]
Public Health NutritionObjective: Social determinants of health (SDoH), such as food and financial insecurity and food assistance, are potentially modifiable factors that may influence breastfeeding initiation and duration.
Junia N de Brito +4 more
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Incorporating cash-based interventions into food assistance programs in humanitarian settings [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Juliette Lash +3 more
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Food assistance use barriers, facilitators, and recommendations: insights from a qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse parents [PDF]
Journal of Nutritional ScienceThe objective of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to utilising a range of food assistance resources as reported by parents living with or at risk for food insecurity (FI), as well as parents’ recommendations for improving utilisation ...
Vivienne M. Hazzard +6 more
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