Assessment of Interest in a Virtual Avatar-Based Nutrition Education Program Among Youth-Serving Community Partners.

Objective: Examine the appeal of a virtual avatar-led nutrition education program among youth-serving community partners in North Carolina.

Methods: We surveyed community partners using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory constructs of relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity. Logistic regression evaluated the appeal and likelihood of the program's future use.

Virtual Avatar Coaching With Community Context for Adult-Child Dyads with Low Income.

Objective: Examine the acceptability of an evidence-based, contextually tailored, virtual avatar coaching approach for nutrition education among adult-child dyads with low income.

Design: Structured observations and semistructured interviews.

Setting: Low-income communities in 2 midsized urban areas.

Extended Reality Technologies in Nutrition Education and Behavior: Comprehensive Scoping Review and Future Directions.

The use of Extended Reality (XR) (i.e. Virtual and Augmented Reality) for nutrition education and behavior change has not been comprehensively reviewed.

Making daddies into fathers: community-based fatherhood programs and the construction of masculinities for low-income African American men.

In this analysis, we explore how low-income African American fathers build understandings of successful manhood in the context of community-based responsible fatherhood programs. Drawing on life history interviews with 75 men in Illinois and Indiana, we explore men's attempts to fulfill normative expectations of fatherhood while living in communities with limited resources. We examine the efforts of community-based fatherhood programs to shape alternative African American masculinities through facilitation of personal turning points and "breaks with the past," use of social support and institutional interventions, and the reframing of provision as a priority of successful fatherhood.