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Promoting Policy and Environmental Change in Faith-Based Organizations: Description and Findings From a Mini-Grants Program. | LitMetric

AI Article Synopsis

  • The Emory Prevention Research Center funded a project aimed at improving healthy eating and physical activity in rural South Georgia through faith-based organizations.
  • This study involved 319 church members, primarily female and Black/African-American, and assessed their perceptions of health initiatives within their churches and their eating and activity habits.
  • Results showed a strong connection between church health promotion strategies, like sermons and serving nutritious food, and members' healthier eating choices, highlighting the church's potential role in encouraging better health practices.

Article Abstract

Purpose: The Emory Prevention Research Center's Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network mini-grant program funded faith-based organizations to implement policy and environmental change to promote healthy eating and physical activity in rural South Georgia. This study describes the existing health promotion environment and its relationship to church member behavior.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Data were obtained from parishioners of six churches in predominantly rural South Georgia.

Subjects: Participants were 319 church members with average age of 48 years, of whom 80% were female and 84% were black/African-American.

Measures: Questionnaires assessed perceptions of the existing church health promotion environment relative to nutrition and physical activity, eating behavior and intention to use physical activity facilities at church, and eating and physical activity behaviors outside of church.

Analysis: Multiple regression and ordinal logistic regression using generalized estimating equations were used to account for clustered data.

Results: Results indicate that delivering messages via sermons and church bulletins, having healthy eating programs, and serving healthy foods are associated with participants' self-reported consumption of healthy foods at church (all p values ≤ .001). Serving more healthy food and less unhealthy food was associated with healthier eating in general but not to physical activity in general (p values ≤ .001).

Conclusion: The church environment may play an important role in supporting healthy eating in this setting and more generally.

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