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A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States
BACKGROUND: The association between farmers’ market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28077113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3943-7 |
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author | Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B. Hinkley, Jedediah Wu, Qiang McGuirt, Jared T. Lyonnais, Mary Jane Rafferty, Ann P. Whitt, Olivia R. Winterbauer, Nancy Phillips, Lisa |
author_facet | Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B. Hinkley, Jedediah Wu, Qiang McGuirt, Jared T. Lyonnais, Mary Jane Rafferty, Ann P. Whitt, Olivia R. Winterbauer, Nancy Phillips, Lisa |
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description | BACKGROUND: The association between farmers’ market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that the relationship between frequency of farmers’ market shopping and BMI would be mediated by fruit and vegetable consumption. METHODS: In 15 farmers’ markets in northeastern North Carolina, July–September 2015, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among 263 farmers’ market customers (199 provided complete address data) and conducted farmers’ market audits. To participate, customers had to be over 18 years of age, and English speaking. Dependent variables included farmers’ market shopping frequency, fruit and vegetable consumption, and BMI. Analysis of variance, adjusted multinomial logistic regression, Poisson regression, and linear regression models, adjusted for age, race, sex, and education, were used to examine associations between distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and BMI. RESULTS: Those who reported shopping at farmers’ markets a few times per year or less reported consuming 4.4 (standard deviation = 1.7) daily servings of fruits and vegetables, and those who reported shopping 2 or more times per week reported consuming 5.5 (2.2) daily servings. There was no association between farmers’ market amenities, and shopping frequency or fruit and vegetable consumption. Those who shopped 2 or more times per week had a statistically significantly lower BMI than those who shopped less frequently. There was no evidence of mediation of the relationship between frequency of shopping and BMI by fruit and vegetable consumption. CONCLUSIONS: More work should be done to understand factors within farmers’ markets that encourage fruit and vegetable purchases. |
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spelling | pubmed-52256092017-01-17 A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B. Hinkley, Jedediah Wu, Qiang McGuirt, Jared T. Lyonnais, Mary Jane Rafferty, Ann P. Whitt, Olivia R. Winterbauer, Nancy Phillips, Lisa BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The association between farmers’ market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that the relationship between frequency of farmers’ market shopping and BMI would be mediated by fruit and vegetable consumption. METHODS: In 15 farmers’ markets in northeastern North Carolina, July–September 2015, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among 263 farmers’ market customers (199 provided complete address data) and conducted farmers’ market audits. To participate, customers had to be over 18 years of age, and English speaking. Dependent variables included farmers’ market shopping frequency, fruit and vegetable consumption, and BMI. Analysis of variance, adjusted multinomial logistic regression, Poisson regression, and linear regression models, adjusted for age, race, sex, and education, were used to examine associations between distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and BMI. RESULTS: Those who reported shopping at farmers’ markets a few times per year or less reported consuming 4.4 (standard deviation = 1.7) daily servings of fruits and vegetables, and those who reported shopping 2 or more times per week reported consuming 5.5 (2.2) daily servings. There was no association between farmers’ market amenities, and shopping frequency or fruit and vegetable consumption. Those who shopped 2 or more times per week had a statistically significantly lower BMI than those who shopped less frequently. There was no evidence of mediation of the relationship between frequency of shopping and BMI by fruit and vegetable consumption. CONCLUSIONS: More work should be done to understand factors within farmers’ markets that encourage fruit and vegetable purchases. BioMed Central 2017-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5225609/ /pubmed/28077113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3943-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B. Hinkley, Jedediah Wu, Qiang McGuirt, Jared T. Lyonnais, Mary Jane Rafferty, Ann P. Whitt, Olivia R. Winterbauer, Nancy Phillips, Lisa A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title | A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title_full | A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title_fullStr | A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title_full_unstemmed | A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title_short | A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States |
title_sort | possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the southern united states |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28077113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3943-7 |
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