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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The Effects of Health Related Messages and Information, Reminders, Praise, and Incentives on the Food Choice Behavior of Youth Participating in an Afterschool Program.

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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire The Effects of Health Related Messages and Information, Reminders, Praise, and Incentives on the Food Choice Behavior of Youth Participating in an Afterschool Program Student Researchers:Tiffany Christner, Stephen Fisher, Lainee Hoffman, Kevin Reinhold & Laurelyn WiesemanFaculty Mentor: Eric Jamelske

  2. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Preliminary Results What Kids Say They Will Eat… …and What They Actually Eat Student Researchers:Tiffany Christner, Stephen Fisher, Lainee Hoffman, Kevin Reinhold & Laurelyn WiesemanFaculty Mentor: Eric Jamelske

  3. Overview • Motivation • Previous Research • Survey of Behavioral Intent • Survey of Fruit and Vegetable Preferences • Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Tracking • Future Work • Questions and Discussion

  4. Motivation • Inadequate FV consumption (not 5-9 a day) • Lots of less healthy alternatives • Rising rates of childhood and adult obesity • Significant health care concern, annual costs in the BILLIONS of $

  5. FV Research • School-Based Programs to Increase FV Intake • Wechsler et al. (2000) • Wechsler et al. (2004) • Blanchette & Brug, (2005) • Knai et al. (2006) • Preferences and Exposure • Reinharts et al. (2007) • Lorson et al. (2009)

  6. FV Research • Schools can increase FV intake • Programs vary widely • Success comes from teacher and administrative buy-in/support • Multidimensional interventions have most impact • Repeated exposure, availability and accessibility are important

  7. USDA FFVP Research • Buzby et al. (2003) • Coyle et al. (2009) • Davis et al. (2009) • Bai et al. (2011) • Potter et al. (2011) • Jamelske et al. (2009) • Jamelske and Bica (2012, 1) • Bica and Jamelske (2012)

  8. FFVP Research • The FFVP works • Increased FV consumption and preferences in school • Repeated exposure, availability, accessibility • Impact is limited

  9. Research on Incentives and FV • Wardle et al. (2002) • Horne et al. (2004) • Cooke et al. (2011, 1) • Cooke et al. (2011, 2) • Jamelske and Bica (2012, 2) • List & Samak (2012) • Just & Price (2012)

  10. Research on Incentives and FV • Incentives Matter! • Incentives can influence food choice and increase FV consumption • Healthy messages help • Peer and teacher modeling is important • More research is needed

  11. Current Project • Elementary and middle school students attend afterschool program • Program runs from 3-6pm with children arriving between 3-4pm • Children are served a snack upon arrival and dinner is served to all children who are still there at 5:30pm • Not all children attend every day • Studying FV preferences, behavioral intent and intake for snack and dinner as well as how children respond to a variety of incentives

  12. Preferences and Behavioral Intent • Pre-test survey inquiring about a range of behaviors • Eating familiar FV, trying unfamiliar FV and choosing FV over less healthy alternatives • The survey also inquired how often children ask their parents to buy FV for them to eat • Post-test survey will be given later

  13. Fruit & Vegetable Intake • Researchers observe and record fruit and vegetable items eaten from those served for snack and dinner • Children report to researchers as trays are emptied after eating • Researchers record data as ate none, tried, ate half, ate all or ate seconds • Data collected every M W F from September 2012 – May 2013 • No incentives have been used as of yet in our study

  14. Our Sample • We have collected FV intake data for at least one day from 126 children thus far • The average number of students present at any given meal was 28, with a low of 5 and a high of 49 • 63 children have completed the pre-test survey • The remaining 63 children will be given the pre-test survey before the next phase of the study begins

  15. ResultsA Preliminary Analysis of the Data

  16. Pre-test Surveyn=63

  17. What Kids Say They Eat

  18. What Kids Say They Eat

  19. What Kids Say They Eat

  20. What Kids Say They Eat

  21. What Kids Say They Eat

  22. Fruit Preferences

  23. Fruit Preferences

  24. Fruit Preferences

  25. Vegetable Preferences

  26. Vegetable Preferences

  27. Vegetable Preferences

  28. FV Intake Trackingn=126All children do not attend every day…

  29. Fruit & Vegetable Intake

  30. Fruit Intake

  31. Vegetable Intake

  32. Future Work • Continue to collect baseline data on FV intake for snack/dinner • More detailed examination of average FV intake • Compare average FV intake to preferences and behavioral intent • Explore average FV intake by meal/over time (repeated exposure) • Investigate gender, school, age, race comparisons • Individual level data for children can be matched to preferences and behavioral intent

  33. Future Work • Begin incentives phase • Target preferences and behavioral intent pre-test data • Serve FV like, don’t like and haven’t tried • Toys, health messages, praise/encouragement, repeated exposure • Offer less healthy choices (cookies/chips) • Observe, record, compare, analyze, report

  34. Questions & Discussion

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