wichealth.org: Impact of a Stages of Change-Based Internet Nutrition Education Program

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 222-229

  Bensley, Robert J ^a   Brusk, John J ^a   Anderson, Judith V ^b   Mercer, Nelda ^b   Rivas, Jason ^a   Broadbent, Lindsay N ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

child nutrition; Internet; nutrition; WIC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; INTERNET; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745136475     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Fox HB, McManus HA, Schmidt HJ. WIC reauthorization: Opportunities for improving the nutritional status of women, infants, and children. Washington, DC: National Health Policy Forum; August 14, 2003. Available at: http://www.nhpf.org/pdfs_bp/BP_WIC2_8-03.pdf. Accessed May 26, 2005.
2. Brown KE, Ryan K, Rumble P, et al. Nutrition education: USDA provides services through multiple programs, but stronger linkages among efforts are needed. Washington (DC): U.S. General Accounting Office, report number GAO-04-528; April 27, 2004. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04528.pdf. Accessed May 26, 2005.
3. Slomba TE, Donahue PF, Bramble PM, et al. Food Assistance: WIC faces challenges in providing nutrition services. Washington (DC): U.S. General Accounting Office, report number GAO-02-142; December 7, 2001. Available at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/resources/Challenges.pdf. Accessed May 26, 2005.
4. Craypo L, Wolf K, Carroll A, Samuels S. Nutrition education: A review of models, approaches, and theories for California WIC. Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association; Atlanta, Ga.: October 22, 2001.
5. Birkett D., Johnson D., Thompson J.R., and Oberg D. Reaching low-income families. Focus group results provide direction for a behavioral approach to WIC services. J Am Diet Assoc 104 8 (2004) 1277-1280
6. Krystal A.R., Glanz K., Curry S.J., and Patterson R.E. How can stages of change be best used in dietary interventions?. J Am Diet Assoc 99 (1999) 679-684
7. Zimmerman G.L., Olsen C.G., and Boworth M.F. A "stages of change" approach to helping patients change behavior. Am Fam Physician 61 (2000) 1409-1416
8. Eng T.R. The ehealth Landscape. A Terrain Map of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care (2001), The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
9. Keckley PH. Building trust: Physician and consumer criteria for evaluating quality. Annual meeting of the Internet Healthcare Coalition; Las Vegas, Nev.: October 3-4, 2000.
10. Jimison H., Adler A., Coye M., Mulkley A., and Eng T.R. Healthcare providers and purchasers and evaluation of interactive health communication applications. Am J Prev Med 16 (1999) 16-22
11. Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health. Wired for health and well-being: The emergence of interactive health communication. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; April 1999. Available at: http://www.health.gov/scipich/pubs/finalreport.htm. Accessed May 26, 2005.
12. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Healthy People 2010 [Internet]. Washington (DC): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2000. Available at: http://www.healthypeople.gov/. Accessed May 26, 2005.
13. Bensley RJ. Nutrition education on the Internet. Annual meeting of the National WIC Association. Anaheim, Calif.: April 26, 2004.
14. Billing AS, Atkinson NL, Gold R. Assessing the needs of food stamp recipients in five Maryland counties. Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association; San Francisco, Calif.: November 15-19, 2003.
15. Harwood P, Rainie L. People who use the Internet away from home and work [Internet]. Washington (DC): Pew Internet & American Life Project; March 2004. Available at: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Other_Places.pdf. Accessed May 26, 2005.
16. Pew Internet & American Life Project. Older Americans and the Internet [Internet]. Washington (DC): Pew Internet & American Life Project; March 28, 2004. Available at: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Seniors_Online_2004.pdf. Accessed May 26, 2005.
17. Cooper KB, Gallagher MD. A nation online: Entering the broadband age [Internet]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce; 2004. Available at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm. Accessed December 6, 2005.
18. Pew Internet & American Life Project. Health Information Online: Eight in ten internet users have looked for health information online, with increased interest in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals. Washington (DC): Pew Internet & American Life Project; May 17, 2005. Available at: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Healthtopics_May05.pdf. Accessed May 19, 2004.
19. Prochaska J.O. Systems of psychotherapy. A transactional process (1979), Dorsey, Homewood, Ill
20. Prochaska J.O., and Velicer W.F. The transtheoretical model of health behavior change. Am J Health Promot 12 1 (1997) 38-48
21. Bensley RJ, Mercer N, Brusk JJ, et al. The ehealth behavior management model: a stage-based approach to behavior change and management. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] October 2004. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/oct/04_0070.htm. Accessed May 16, 2005.
22. Cassell M.M., Jackson C., and Cheuvront B. Health communication on the Internet. an effective channel for health behavior change?. J Health Commun 3 1 (1998) 71-79
23. Ajzen I. Theory of planned behavior. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2002. Available at: http://www.people.umass.edu/aizen/tpb.html. Accessed May 26, 2005.
24. Fishbein M., and Ajzen I. Belief, attitude, intention and behavior. An introduction to theory and research (1975), Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass
25. Satter E. Child of mine (2000), Bull Publishing Company, Palo Alto, Calif
26. Kloeben A.S., Thompson N.J., and Miner K.R. Predicting breast-feeding intention among low-income pregnant women. A comparison of two theoretical models. Health Educ Behav 26 5 (1999) 675-688
27. Hodgson C. Improving health in Canada. An interactive resource for behavior change. NPHIC News 15 4 (2004) 2-3