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Fruits and vegetables in an inner-city Head Start center.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fruits and vegetables in an inner-city Head Start center./
Author:	Fleischhacker, Sheila Erin.
Description:	351 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: B, page: 4511.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Nutrition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148645
ISBN:	0496070916

Fruits and vegetables in an inner-city Head Start center.
Fleischhacker, Sheila Erin.

Fruits and vegetables in an inner-city Head Start center. - 351 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: B, page: 4511.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2004.

Early intervention is one of the most effective methods of creating or changing dietary patterns; yet, evidence on intervening efforts targeted toward low-income and African American preschoolers is limited. These two groups, from the fetus through adulthood, endure a disproportionate risk of developing diet-related diseases and have a low intake of fruits and vegetables. Head Start offers one avenue to assist low-income and African American populations in improving their dietary intake and it may, thereby, help reduce their disproportionate health burden. The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study is to: (1) explore the concepts, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables in low-income, African American preschoolers who participate in an inner-city Head Start childcare center; (2) explore the concepts, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables of the primary care providers (i.e. parents, grandparents, etc.) of the children studied under the first aim; and, (3) determine the level of shared meaning, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables between the children studied under the first aim and both their primary care providers (studied under the second aim) and their childcare providers.

ISBN: 0496070916Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017801
Health Sciences, Nutrition.

Fruits and vegetables in an inner-city Head Start center.
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520 $a Early intervention is one of the most effective methods of creating or changing dietary patterns; yet, evidence on intervening efforts targeted toward low-income and African American preschoolers is limited. These two groups, from the fetus through adulthood, endure a disproportionate risk of developing diet-related diseases and have a low intake of fruits and vegetables. Head Start offers one avenue to assist low-income and African American populations in improving their dietary intake and it may, thereby, help reduce their disproportionate health burden. The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study is to: (1) explore the concepts, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables in low-income, African American preschoolers who participate in an inner-city Head Start childcare center; (2) explore the concepts, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables of the primary care providers (i.e. parents, grandparents, etc.) of the children studied under the first aim; and, (3) determine the level of shared meaning, preference, availability, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables between the children studied under the first aim and both their primary care providers (studied under the second aim) and their childcare providers.
520 $a These results demonstrate that an inner-city Head Start center's children and primary care providers both had: a varied understanding of fruits and vegetables with little meaning behind the concepts, a positive preference for fruits and vegetables, limited access to fruits and vegetables, and an intake of fruits and vegetables that varied. Nonetheless, between these children, primary care providers, and childcare providers minimal common meaning occurred.
520 $a These findings indicate that nutrition communication, education, and intervening efforts for populations like this low-income, inner-city, African American sample should focus on developing methods and mediums to increase nutrition knowledge on fruits and vegetables in children, primary care providers, and childcare providers. Efforts should design mediums to facilitate similar dialogue and activities around fruits and vegetables in the home and childcare settings between these three groups. Potential topics and aims about fruits and vegetables can include expressing preference; improving household, childcare center, and community availability; along with targeting messages to increase dietary intake. Future research and theory should validate these findings in other samples and then should build off this work in order to learn how to effectively utilize Head Start---its meals, educational curriculum, and interaction with primary care providers---to promote healthy eating in at-risk populations and, in doing so, help reduce the risk of diet-related diseases prevalent in this population. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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