Types and Characteristics of Fish and Seafood Provisioning Scripts Used by Rural Midlife Adults.

Objective: To examine rural New York State consumers' cognitive scripts for fish and seafood provisioning.

Design: A cross-sectional design with in-depth, semistructured interviews.

Setting: Three rural New York State counties.

Knowledge about food classification systems and value attributes provides insight for understanding complementary food choices in Mexican working mothers.

Knowledge about mothers' perceptions of food classification and values about complementary feeding is necessary for designing educational and food supply interventions targeted to young children. To determine classification, attributes, and consumption/preparation routines of key complementary foods, 44 mothers of children < 2 y of age in 14 manufacturing businesses were studied. Using 31 key foods, we conducted free-listings, pile-sort, and food attributes exercises.

Gastric bypass patients' goal-strategy-monitoring networks for long-term dietary management.

Following gastric bypass surgery, patients must make dramatic dietary changes, but little is known about patients' perspectives on long-term dietary management after this surgery. This grounded theory, qualitative study sought to advance conceptual understanding of food choice by examining how gastric bypass patients constructed personal food systems to guide food and eating behaviors 12 months post-surgery. Two in-depth interviews were conducted with each of 16 adults, purposively sampled from bariatric support groups.

Understanding dietary monitoring and self-weighing by gastric bypass patients: a pilot study of self-monitoring behaviors and long-term weight outcomes.

Background: Weight and dietary monitoring have been associated with better weight loss outcomes among dieters using lifestyle modification, but they have rarely been studied among gastric bypass surgery patients. This exploratory study examined dietary and weight self-monitoring behaviors and their association with weight outcomes in a sample of gastric bypass patients who were at least 12 months post-surgery.

Methods: A convenience sample of 32 female and 5 male patients living in Upstate New York was recruited through support group list-servs.

How people interpret healthy eating: contributions of qualitative research.

Objective: To identify how qualitative research has contributed to understanding the ways people in developed countries interpret healthy eating.

Design: Bibliographic database searches identified reports of qualitative, empirical studies published in English, peer-reviewed journals since 1995.

Data Analysis: Authors coded, discussed, recoded, and analyzed papers reporting qualitative research studies related to participants' interpretations of healthy eating.

Eating maps: places, times, and people in eating episodes.

This project developed a method for constructing eating maps that portray places, times, and people in an individual's eating episodes. Researchers used seven consecutive days of qualitative eating recall interviews from 42 purposively sampled U.S.

Behavioral contexts, food-choice coping strategies, and dietary quality of a multiethnic sample of employed parents.

Employed parents' work and family conditions provide behavioral contexts for their food choices. Relationships between employed parents' food-choice coping strategies, behavioral contexts, and dietary quality were evaluated. Data on work and family conditions, sociodemographic characteristics, eating behavior, and dietary intake from two 24-hour dietary recalls were collected in a random sample cross-sectional pilot telephone survey in the fall of 2006.

A conceptual model of how US families with athletic adolescent daughters manage food and eating.

Health professionals concerned about the risks of adolescent obesity and disordered eating practices need greater understanding of how families with adolescents manage food in today's fast paced environment. This paper sought to gain conceptual understanding of the food and eating routines of families with a female adolescent athlete from the perspectives of mothers and daughters. Ten white, non-Hispanic mothers and their daughters were purposively sampled from high school track and cross country teams in Upstate New York.

Constructing food choice decisions.

Background: Food choice decisions are frequent, multifaceted, situational, dynamic, and complex and lead to food behaviors where people acquire, prepare, serve, give away, store, eat, and clean up. Many disciplines and fields examine decision making.

Purpose: Several classes of theories are applicable to food decision making, including social behavior, social facts, and social definition perspectives.

Work conditions and the food choice coping strategies of employed parents.

Objective: How work conditions relate to parents' food choice coping strategies.

Design: Pilot telephone survey.

Setting: City in the northeastern United States (US).

Employed parents' satisfaction with food-choice coping strategies. Influence of gender and structure.

This study aimed to understand parents' evaluations of the way they integrated work-family demands to manage food and eating. Employed, low/moderate-income, urban, U.S.

Eating routines. Embedded, value based, modifiable, and reflective.

Eating routines are a compelling issue because recurring eating behaviors influence nutrition and health. As non-traditional and individualized eating patterns have become more common, new ways of thinking about routine eating practices are needed. This study sought to gain conceptual understanding of working adults' eating routines.

How adults construct evening meals. Scripts for food choice.

The evening meal is an important regular event in the lives of many people. Understanding how people cognitively construct evening meals can provide insight into social and behavioral processes that are used in food choice. Schema theory provided a framework to explore cognitive constructions as scripts that guide behavior for the evening meal.

Trying to find the quickest way: employed mothers' constructions of time for food.

Objective: The study sought to develop an understanding of how employed mothers constructed time for food provisioning for themselves and their families.

Design: A grounded theory approach and semistructured, in-depth interviews.

Setting: A metropolitan area of approximately 1 million people in the northeastern United States.

Dimensions of everyday eating and drinking episodes.

This study sought to gain conceptual understanding of the situational nature of eating and drinking by analyzing 7 consecutive, qualitative 24-h recalls of foods and beverages consumed from 42 US adults who worked in non-managerial, non-professional positions. Participants were purposively recruited to vary in age, gender, occupation, and household composition. For each recall, participants described foods and beverages consumed, location, people present, thoughts and feelings, and activities occurring at that time.

"A lot of sacrifices:" work-family spillover and the food choice coping strategies of low-wage employed parents.

Integrating their work and family lives is an everyday challenge for employed parents. Competing demands for parents' time and energy may contribute to fewer meals prepared or eaten at home and poorer nutritional quality of meals. Thus, work-family spillover (feelings, attitudes, and behaviors carried over from one role to another) is a phenomenon with implications for nutrition and health.

It just really clicked: participant-perceived outcomes of community nutrition education programs.

Objective: To understand participant-perceived outcomes of community nutrition education programs by low income adults.

Design: A grounded theory approach using qualitative interviews.

Setting: Rural and urban communities in New York State and Pennsylvania.

A biographical study of food choice capacity: standards, circumstances, and food management skills.

Objective: Conceptual understanding of how management of food and eating is linked to life course events and experiences.

Design/setting: Individual qualitative interviews with adults in upstate New York.

Participants: Fourteen men and 11 women with moderate to low incomes.

On the front line: practice satisfactions and challenges experienced by dietetics and nutrition professionals working in community settings in New York State.

The goal of this study was to understand dietetics and nutrition professionals' experiences of their practice roles. Qualitative interviews using a grounded theory design covered practitioners' perceptions of their professional roles, role enactment, and practice context. Twenty-four dietetics and nutrition practitioners varying in their work settings, length of professional experience, education, and community type were recruited through professional contacts in New York State.

Personal and family food choice schemas of rural women in upstate New York.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain conceptual understanding of the cognitive processes involved in food choice among low- to moderate-income rural women.

Design: This interpretivist study used grounded theory methods and a theory-guided approach.

Participants/setting: Sixteen women aged 18 to 50 years from varied household compositions were purposefully recruited in an upstate New York rural county.

Sandwiching it in: spillover of work onto food choices and family roles in low- and moderate-income urban households.

Lower status jobs, high workloads and lack of control at work have been associated with less healthful diets, but the ways through which work is connected to food choices are not well understood. This analysis was an examination of workers' experience of the relationship of their jobs to their food choices. Fifty-one multi-ethnic, urban, low- and moderate-income adults living in Upstate New York in 1995 participated in a qualitative interview study of fruit and vegetable choices and discussed employment and food choices.

Who we are and how we eat: a qualitative study of identities in food choice.

Objective: The study sought to develop a theoretical understanding of identities related to eating.

Design: A grounded theory approach and open-ended, in-depth interviews were used to examine identity and eating from the perspectives of adults.

Participants: Seventeen middle-class, white adults (nine women, eight men) were purposely recruited to vary in gender, age, household composition, and ways of eating using convenience and snowball sampling.