Browsing by Author "Harnack, Lisa"

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    Manual of Procedures for the Fruit and Vegetable Procurement Tool
    (2025-02-06) Horning, Melissa L.; Gorman, Kristen S.; Steiner, Julia; Wolfson, Julian; Laska, Melissa N.; Fulkerson, Jayne A.; Harnack, Lisa
    The Fruit and Vegetable Procurement Tool was designed to capture usual household procurement of fruits and vegetables over a 4 week period. This tool is comprised of 4 weekly paper-pen booklets containing instructions and procurement forms to record fruit and vegetable items. Participants are instructed during an in-person appointment on how to use the tool and provided materials to track their procurement of fruits and vegetables. After data are received from participants, research staff check for completion in multiple passes and enter data provided by participants into the Nutritional Data System for Research (NDSR) to calculate the total edible (1 cup equivalent) servings of fruits and vegetables procured per week. This manual describes the procedures for using and entering data collected using the Fruit and Vegetable Procurement Tool. This manual also provides the materials needed to use the Tool in the field, including the Tool itself.
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    Nutrition Stocking Guidance for Full-Service Mobile Markets
    (2025-01-14) Harnack, Lisa; Laska, Melissa N; Horning, Melissa L
    Mobile markets, also called grocery-stores-on-wheels, work to improve food access, food security, and dietary intake in underserved areas. With limited shelf-space, mobile markets have to make decisions on which products to stock to support a culturally-connected and nutritious food shopping environment, while also balancing price and respecting customer autonomy. These stocking guidelines provide nutrition-related guidance to support mobile markets in choosing an array of products that provide more nutritious options for customers.
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    STORE Study Data Collection Tools
    (2014-2017) Laska, Melissa; Caspi, Caitlin; Harnack, Lisa; Erickson, Darin; Pelletier, Jennifer;
    Improving access to healthy food has been identified by the Institute of Medicine, CDC and other national and scientific authorities as a strategy for local governments to help prevent obesity. In the fall of 2014, the city of Minneapolis revised an ordinance requiring all stores with grocery licenses to carry a wide array of healthy foods and beverages in order to better align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and stocking requirements for WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program vendors. Minneapolis was the first and to date is one of the only cities in the U.S. to have a policy of this kind in place. This type of policy action may have an important impact on food access, particularly in under-served neighborhoods and small food stores that do not currently stock these types of items. This policy is expected to have the greatest impact on small-scale food retailers, such as corner stores and convenience stores, as well as non-traditional food retailers, such as gas-marts, dollar stores, and pharmacies. The purpose of the STaple foods ORdinance Evaluation (STORE) study was to, therefore, evaluate the impact of this local policy change (i.e., the Minneapolis Staple Foods Ordinance). In this study, the impact of the Minneapolis Staple Foods Ordinance was evaluated by assessing objectively measured changes in: a) food environments among small and non-traditional urban food stores, including availability, promotion, advertising, quality, price, and placement of both healthy and unhealthy foods and beverages; b) nutritional quality of consumer purchases at small and non-traditional food stores, including assessment of energy density and calories via customer intercept interviews and direct observation of purchases; and c) home food environments, including availability of healthy and unhealthy foods/beverages and an overall home food obesogenicity score among households that frequently shop at small- to mid-sized food stores. These changes were assessed pre-policy implementation as well as 4-, 12- and 24-months post-policy implementation in Minneapolis and St. Paul (the control community) from 2014 to 2017. Data collected in 2014, during the pre-policy implementation phase, were in the form of objective store assessments, customer intercept interviews, retailer (store owner/manager) interviews, and home visits with customers who frequently shopped in small or non-traditional food stores. Data collected at home visits were interviews, surveys, and dietary assessments, including the Home Food Inventory (Fulkerson et al, IJBNPA, 2008 Nov 4:5: 55).
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    Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Family Nutrition
    (Food Policy Research Center, 2013-05) Beatty, Timothy; Harnack, Lisa