California adults increase fruit and vegetable consumption from 1997-2007.

Objective: To determine whether fruit and vegetable consumption among California adults significantly increased from 1997-2007.

Design: Biennial telephone surveillance surveys of California adults' dietary practices.

Participants: California adults (n = 9,105 total all 6 surveys).

Usage and recall of the Food Stamp Office Resource Kit (FSORK) by food stamp applicants in 4 California counties.

Objective: To evaluate recall and usage of the Food Stamp Office Resource Kit (FSORK), a set of nutrition education materials designed for use in food stamp offices.

Design: Client intercept exit surveys, an environmental scan, and individual observations of clients in the food stamp office.

Setting: Four food stamp offices in California.

Using a Toolbox of tailored educational lessons to improve fruit, vegetable, and physical activity behaviors among African American women in California.

Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of the Fruit, Vegetable, and Physical Activity Toolbox for Community Educators (Toolbox), an intervention originally designed for Spanish- and English-speaking audiences, in changing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among low-income African American women.

Design: Quasi-experimental design with treatment and control groups.

Setting: Four community-based organizations and direct health service provider sites.

Using an opinion poll to build an obesity-prevention social marketing campaign for low-income Asian and Hispanic immigrants: report of findings.

Objective: To gain opinions from low-income, limited-English-speaking Hispanic and Asian immigrants for formative research in a social marketing campaign.

Design: Nineteen questions on obesity prevention-related topics were embedded into a larger random digit-dial survey investigating the effects of language and cultural barriers on health care access. Participants were selected by ethnic encoding from consumer databases.

Community health centers: a promising venue for supplemental nutrition assistance program education in the Central Valley.

Health care providers could help achieve the necessary shift to healthful eating and active living; however, lack of coverage or reimbursement, lack of time, and limited information about appropriate interventions are some of the documented barriers. This report highlights the potential for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) implementation in the relatively nontraditional setting of Federally Qualified Health Centers based on the experience of the Central Valley Health Network's Nutrition Education Demonstration Project. The report provides a brief overview of the primary prevention role(s) suggested for health care providers, relevant SNAP-Ed policies, how SNAP-Ed has been implemented in Federally Qualified Health Center settings, and recommendations for similar efforts.

Building evaluation capacity in local programs for multisite nutrition education interventions.

From 2004-2008, capacity to conduct program evaluation was built among the Network for a Healthy California's 48 largest local partners. Capacity building was done within a framework of Empowerment Evaluation and Utility-Focused evaluation. Tools included: a Scope of Work template, a handbook, a compendium of surveys, an evaluation plan and report template, data entry and analysis templates, teleconferences, workshops, and technical assistance.

The Power Play! Campaign's School Idea & Resource Kits improve determinants of fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity among fourth- and fifth-grade children.

Objective: Examine the effect of the California Children's Power Play! Campaign's School Idea & Resource Kits for fourth/fifth grades on the psychosocial determinants of fruit and vegetable (FV) intake and physical activity (PA).

Methods: Randomized, controlled trial (n = 31 low-resource public schools; 1,154 children). Ten grade-specific, 50-minute nutrition and PA lessons over an 8-week period.

Effect of fresh fruit availability at worksites on the fruit and vegetable consumption of low-wage employees.

Objective: To examine the impact of fresh fruit availability at worksites on the fruit and vegetable consumption and related psychosocial determinants of low-wage employees.

Design: A prospective, randomized block experimental design.

Setting: Seven apparel manufacturing and 2 food processing worksites.

Reliability of a retail food store survey and development of an accompanying retail scoring system to communicate survey findings and identify vendors for healthful food and marketing initiatives.

Objective: To develop a retail grocery instrument with weighted scoring to be used as an indicator of the food environment.

Participants/setting: Twenty six retail food stores in low-income areas in California.

Intervention: Observational.