Food store access and household fruit and vegetable use among participants in the US Food Stamp Program
Researchers: Donald Rose and Rickelle Richards
This is a survey analysis on a population where they find a correlation between the distance people live from grocery markets and people who have access to food stamps. Surveys show that people did increase their intake only when grocery stores were of walking distance and with food stamps take the burden away of buying healthy food.
The database I used was Google Scholar.
Going into the database, my aim was to search for an article that was related to Nutritional health. Issues or challenges that I encountered was that my searches were too abstract because many kinds of articles came up relating to nutrition. At Least this allowed me to explore different nutrition topics I want to look into. Afterwards I narrowed my search to a more specific population and looked into articles that provided surveys and analysis on the population regarding access to Nutritious food.
Based on the components of a research article. For me I was a bit confused how the article was being introduced. At first it was discussing a past experimental survey done in the 1980s so right away I can identify this was a secondary source. Not until later did the article transition to researchers who want to replicate the same survey into today’s population.
A specific use or practical application this article can be used for is to create an intervention plan to help a community with nutrition access. Based on the article’s data about different communities that have different levels of access to food nutrition, we can determine if the chosen community matches with the variables presented in the data collection. Based on that, now we can focus more on the plan of action and figure out methods in which food accessibility can be created. This information would help develop nutritional education to patients who lack the knowledge of understanding proper nutrition. This information can be applied to a windshield tour which is a specific course assignment. With the information people can tour through communities and observe different traits that make the article’s findings true.
Rose, D., & Richards, R. (2004). Food store access and household fruit and vegetable
use among participants in the US Food Stamp Program. Public Health Nutrition.
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