Promoting Policy and Environmental Change in Faith-Based Organizations: Description and Findings From a Mini-Grants Program
| Autor: | Michelle Carvalho, Michelle C. Kegler, Sabrina T. Cherry, Kimberly R. Jacob Arriola, Sheritta Frazier, April Hermstad, Cam Escoffery, Sally Honeycutt, Shauna St. Clair Flemming, Tamara Davis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Adult
Male Rural Population Gerontology Georgia Health (social science) Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject Health Promotion Environment Social Environment Faith 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Exercise Health policy Aged media_common 030505 public health business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social environment Feeding Behavior Middle Aged Diet Black or African American Religion Cross-Sectional Studies Health promotion Faith-Based Organizations Regression Analysis Female Ordered logit 0305 other medical science business Research center |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Health Promotion. 31:192-199 |
| ISSN: | 2168-6602 0890-1171 |
| DOI: | 10.4278/ajhp.150212-quan-724 |
| Popis: | 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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