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Dietary Intake and Food Behavior Practices: Long‐Term Effects of the Georgia Expanded Food and Nutrition Program
Author(s) -
Brown Amanda J.,
Pestle Ruth E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8101000108
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , residence , gerontology , nutrition education , population , psychology , environmental health , medicine , demography , mathematics , sociology , geometry
Homemakers' food behavior practices and diet scores were compared at entrance to the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, at graduation whenever their diets met the minimum daily nutritional requirements level, and one year following graduation. Program factors studied were type of teaching method and frequency of visits of teachers. Characteris tics of subjects studied were place of residence, educational level, age of homemaker, and age of children. The population included 225 homemakers. Food behavior practices and diet scores were maintained for all subjects after graduation. No differences occurred between entrance and graduation for subjects taught by the group method, for farm subjects, or for subjects having children in one particular age category.