Validation of a Brief Physical Activity Assessment Tool for Adults With Limited Resources.

Objective: To validate a Brief Physical Activity Assessment Tool for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program (EFNEP).

Design: Phase 1: test-retest reliability based on 2 survey administrations; Phase 2: concurrent validity triangulated with accelerometer data; Phase 3: sensitivity to change and responsiveness and secondary analysis of EFNEP national dataset.

Setting: Community centers and/or EFNEP classes across the US.

Validity and Reliability Assessment of a Food and Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents From Low-Income Communities.

Objective: Develop and validate an evaluation questionnaire for sixth-12th grade Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) participants.

Design: Five-step process: domain concept prioritization, question generation, question pretesting, reliability testing, and criterion validity testing.

Setting: Community sites in 4 states and New Jersey EFNEP secondary program data.

Recommendations for Integrating Evidence-Based, Sustainable Diet Information into Nutrition Education.

The adoption of more sustainable diets (SD) has the capacity to meet the needs of individuals without compromising future generations' abilities to do the same. Nutrition educators are ideal candidates for delivering SD education to consumers, yet evidence-based recommendations for the profession have not been crafted. The results of a thorough, narrative review of the literature performed in 2021 suggest there are five well-supported recommendations nutrition educators should consider incorporating in their work.

Development and Validation of a Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity Scale for Low-Income Adolescents.

Background: Low-income adolescents' physical activity (PA) levels fall below current recommendations. Perceived barriers to physical activity (PBPA) are likely significant predictors of PA levels; however, valid and reliable measures to assess PA barriers are lacking. This manuscript describes the development of the PBPA Survey for Low-Income Adolescents.

Research to Support the Development of a Campaign to Increase Physical Activity Among Low-Income, Urban, Diverse, Inactive Teens.

Objective: To ascertain inactive teens' insights regarding the types of physical activities (PAs) they would be willing to do, and to inform a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education PA social marketing campaign targeting this audience.

Design: Formative, qualitative research via focus groups.

Setting: Low-income, urban New Jersey areas between September, 2013 and April, 2014.

A Point-of-Purchase Intervention Using Grocery Store Tour Podcasts About Omega-3s Increases Long-Term Purchases of Omega-3-Rich Food Items.

Objective: To assess the impacts associated with a grocery store tour point-of-purchase intervention using podcasts about omega-3 fatty acid (n-3)-rich food items.

Design: A repeated-measures secondary data analysis of food purchase records obtained from a convenience sample of shoppers' loyalty cards.

Participants: Shoppers (n = 251) who had listened to podcasts regarding n-3-rich foods while shopping.

Grocery store podcast about omega-3 fatty acids influences shopping behaviors: a pilot study.

Objectives: To determine whether listening to a podcast about omega-3 fatty acids (n-3s) while grocery shopping increased shoppers' awareness about and purchases of seafood and other foods rich in n-3s.

Methods: Repeated-measures design with a convenience sample (n = 56) of grocery shoppers who listened to the podcast while shopping. Pre- and postintervention semistructured interviews were conducted.