The impact of home, work, and church environments on fat intake over time among rural residents: a longitudinal observational study

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• Alternative Title:
  BMC Public Health
• Personal Author:
  Haardörfer, Regine ; Alcantara, Iris ; Addison, Ann ; Glanz, Karen ; Kegler, Michelle C.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Dietary behaviors are influenced by many individual and environmental factors. This study explores how dietary fat intake in high-risk midlife adults living in the rural south is influenced by three behavior settings, i.e. in the home, at work, and at church.
  
  Methods
  
  Self-report data were collected from rural African American or Caucasian adults age 40–70 at three time points at baseline, 6, and 12 months post baseline. Multilevel analyses investigated the impact of determinants of fat intake over time.
  
  Results
  
  Home and work environments varied significantly over time in regard to healthy eating while church environments remained stable. Age, gender, and self-efficacy for healthy eating were individual factors associated with fat intake. In the home, presence of more high fat items, a time-varying variable, was significant. In the work environment, having access to healthy foods as well as healthy eating programs has positive impact as did hearing healthy eating messages and availability of healthy foods at church.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Understanding stability and variability of dietary fat intake from a social ecologic perspective will aid in identifying targets of change for intervention. Understanding which components of key behavior settings are dynamic and which are relatively stable will help to disentangle the complexity of multi-level determinants of dietary behavior.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Black Or African American Christianity Dietary Fats Female Food Habits Health Behavior Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Middle Aged Rural Population Self Efficacy White People Young Adult

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• Source:
  BMC Public Health. 16.
• Pubmed ID:
  26825701
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4731896
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  5U48DP001909/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; U48DP000043/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  16
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9ce90cd959cd8510afb1ba63a96d7556835d5e3aa2241ee0b14d6d995b519d7b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40822/cdc_40822_DS1.pdf
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