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PubMed1980

Association of participation in a nutritional program for the elderly with nutritional status.

The nutritional status of 547 participants of the Title VII Nutrition Program for the Elderly was assessed by anthropometric, biochemical, and dietary means. The nutriture for vitamins A and C was positively associated with frequency of participation in the program using biochemical and dietary methods of assessment. A significant smaller percentage of persons who participated in the program on a regular basis had inadequate intakes of riboflavin and thiamin. Fewer persons had anemia and low serum iron concentrations than was reported in an earlier baseline study. However, in this group of persons frequency of participation was not associated with anemia or serum iron-concentrations. Participation in the program was not significantly related to the dietary intake of energy, saturated fat, and cholesterol or to the incidence of obesity when assessed using triceps skinfold thickness, ponderal index, body mass index, and percentage of desirable weight. It can be concluded that the Title VII Nutrition Program for the Elderly is associated with improvement in the nutritional status of the participants.

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PubMed2001

The effect of employee job satisfaction on program participation rates in the Virginia WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children).

Many researchers have shown a link between employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction in the private sector. Customer satisfaction is the end result of whether the particular service and/or a product meet the customer's needs. The purpose of this research project was to assess the level of employee job satisfaction in the Virginia WIC Program and to determine whether a correlation exists between the level of employee job satisfaction and program participation rates. The results of this study showed that high levels of employee job satisfaction were positively correlated to high program participation rates in the Virginia WIC Program.

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PubMed2001

The impact of customer focus on program participation rates in the Virginia WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children).

It has been shown in the for-profit sector (business, service, and manufacturing) that the success of an organization depends on its ability to satisfy customer requirements while eliminating waste and reducing costs. The purpose of this article was to examine the impact of current practices in customer focus on program participation rates in the Virginia WIC Program. The results of this study showed that the use of customer-focused strategies was correlated to program participation rates in the WIC Program. The mean data showed that teamwork and accessibility were at unsatisfactory levels in Virginia.

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PubMed1996

Nutrition programs through public health centers in Korea.

In the period of confusion after the Korean War, there was an absolute shortage in the volume of food. The intake of energy and all other nutrients fell short of the recommended dietary intake. To solve the food shortage, there were many food assistant programs through the government channel. With the economic developments during past years, now, there are enough foods for everyone. Thus, food assistant program, which has been the only nutrition program in the government, is no longer needed except for low-income families. Currently, there are not enough nutrition programs in the government. In 1994, about 30 public health center start nutrition programs with the help of Korean Dietetic Association. In this study, kinds of nutrition programs, age, sex and number of participants, the content of programs are studied. The effects of nutrition programs are partially evaluated. Also, problems with current nutrition programs are discussed. Finally, future directions of nutrition programs in the public health centers are discussed.

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PubMed1995

Sustainability of a successful health and nutrition program in a remote aboriginal community.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the long term effect of a nutrition program in a remote Aboriginal community (Minjilang). DESIGN: Evaluation of nutritional outcomes over the three years before and the three years after a health and nutrition program that ran from June 1989 to June 1990. Turnover of food items at the community store was used as a measure of dietary intake at Minjilang and a comparison community. SETTING: A community of about 150 Aboriginal people live at Minjilang on Croker Island, 240 km north-east of Darwin. A similar community of about 300 people on another island was used as the comparison. RESULTS: The program produced lasting improvements in dietary intake of most target foods (including fruit, vegetables and wholegrain bread) and nutrients (including folate, ascorbic acid and thiamine). Sugar intake fell in both communities before the program, but the additional decrease in sugar consumption during the program at Minjilang "rebounded" in the next year. Dietary improvements in the comparison community were delayed and smaller than at Minjilang. CONCLUSIONS: The success of the program at Minjilang was linked to an ongoing process of social change, which in turn provided a stimulus for dietary improvement in the comparison community. When Aboriginal people themselves control and maintain ownership of community-based intervention programs, nutritional improvements can be initiated and sustained.

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PubMed1998

The hemodialysis pilot study: nutrition program and participant characteristics at baseline. The HEMO Study Group.

OBJECTIVE: Describe the nutrition program (assessments and interventions) and the participants' baseline nutritional characteristics in the Hemodialysis Pilot Study. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey in which hemodialysis patients were examined during 10 weeks of baseline (BL), before randomization study interventions (dose and flux). SETTING: Four hemodialysis centers (eight dialysis units in total). PATIENTS: Twenty-nine male (mean age, 63 years; range, 34 to 75) and 20 female (mean age, 61 years; range, 29 to 73) hemodialysis patients. INTERVENTIONS: None during BL. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Feasibility of implementing the proposed nutrition program before conducting the full-scale trial, and description of baseline characteristics related to nutrition. RESULTS: A nutrition program was developed to assess nutritional status during BL and follow-up periods and to intervene in patients with weight loss or decreasing serum albumin. Methods for collecting biochemical, dietary and anthropometric data were implemented at four clinical centers. At baseline, mean protein intake estimated by single pool normalized protein catabolic rate was 0.95 +/- 0.21 gm/kg adjusted body weight (ABW) (n = 42) and by diet record assisted recalls (n = 47) 0.94 +/- 0.36 gm/kg ABW/d, respectively. Mean energy intake was 22.8 +/- 8 kcal/kg ABW/day (n = 39). Mean serum albumin concentration using the bromcresol green method was 3.8 +/- 0.4 gm/dL (n = 40). Mean body mass index was within the normal limits of 19-27 kg/m2. Mean skinfold thicknesses in females, but not males, were shifted toward the lower end of usual distributions for healthy individuals. CONCLUSIONS: The goal of designing, developing, and implementing the diet and nutrition component, and related data collection for the HEMO pilot study was accomplished at four separate clinical centers. Baseline mean protein and energy intake were low, suggesting that continuing dietary surveillance is needed. The ongoing full-scale HEMO study will provide the first prospective analysis of dietary intake, nutritional status, and outcome in maintenance hemodialysis patients as a function of dialysis dose and membrane flux.

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PubMed1991

Serving elders in greatest social and economic need: the challenge to the Elderly Nutrition Program.

The federally funded Elderly Nutrition Program is mandated to serve elders in greatest social and economic need. Yet researchers have concluded that the program underserves certain groups of elders, including those who are socially impaired and homeless and members of ethnic and other minority groups. This paper reviews the issues involved in serving elders in greatest social and economic need and suggests that reaching all of these elders with program services is not only a laudable goal but also, based on innovative models briefly described, is clearly achievable.

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PubMed1993

[Nutrition programs in a rural environment in the Philippines].

The study of the relationship between the nutrition programs and the villagers of the Municipality of Plaridel, the target population, reveals that the Philippine Nutrition Program, in the process of planning and implementing the intervention programs, keeps apart from the community. As a result, the barangay people consider that these programs don't meet their needs and very few participate on them. Furthermore, in Plaridel, the intervention programs did not modify the nutritional status of the pre-school children, and the main short-term objectives of the Philippine Nutrition Program are far from being achieved. However, in this Municipality, there are social forces susceptible to become the supports of the intervention programs if these are based on the articulation of the recognized community needs and the articulation of the community's capacities.

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PubMed1992

Project director characteristics in the Elderly Nutrition Program.

The federally funded Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) began in 1972, authorized under Title 7 of the Older Americans Act. Its purpose was to serve elders, targeting those in greatest social and economic need. This article describes the characteristics of the Nutrition Project Directors in the ENP through data gathered by a questionnaire completed by a random sample of 430 directors across the nation. One important finding was that directors of programs serving large numbers of low-income or minority elders tended to have less education and commanded lower salaries than directors serving fewer poor and minority elders. In addition, while a higher proportion of these directors were minority members, numbers of nonwhite Nutrition Project Directors remains low.

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PubMed1984

The National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs: program impact on family food expenditures.

Since the major goals of the school nutrition programs are to safeguard the health of children by providing nutritious meals and to promote consumption of domestic agricultural products, it is important to know the extent to which participation in the school nutrition programs increases the value of food obtained by participating families. The analysis of the factors that influence family food expenditures is described. No evidence is found that families reduce their other food expenditures in response to their children's participation in the school nutrition programs. The most important factors that influence family food expenditures are family size and income. The age of children in the family, location of the family, and educational attainment and employment status of heads of household also affect food expenditures.

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PubMed1982

A self-instruction nutrition program for pregnant women.

The Prenatal Nutrition Program (PNP), a self-instruction program, consists of a videocassette and three pamphlets concerning nutrition during pregnancy. An evaluation study made PNP available to 52 white, middle-class, well-educated pregnant women in their physician's waiting room. PNP improved their knowledge but had no significant effect on their attitudes (initially very positive) or dietary behavior. On the basis of combined pre- and post-PNP program testing, significant correlations were found between the pregnant women's knowledge and attitudes and between their knowledge and dietary behavior. All subjects rated PNP very favorably. It is concluded that self-instruction programs offer a viable and less costly alternative to individual nutrition counseling.

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PubMed1984

The National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs: program impact on anthropometric measures.

This report describes the anthropometric analysis component of the National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs. It addresses two research questions: First, is there a relationship between participation in the school nutrition programs and students' height, weight, and triceps fatfold, and, second, are the impacts of program participation on height, weight, and triceps fatfold different for students with different characteristics? The anthropometric analyses suggest that long-term participation in the School Lunch Program has no relationship to height but does have a small relationship to the weight of school-aged children. This is at least partly due to an increase in body fat. Program impacts do not differ for students with different income and ethnic characteristics; however, impacts are greater for older children than for younger children. The School Breakfast Program has no relationship with students' height and only weak relationships with students' weight and triceps fatfold. The Breakfast Program tends slightly to move participants toward the middle of the weight distribution and away from the extremes. Although there are statistically significant increases in weight and triceps fatfold thickness associated with participation in the School Lunch Program, they are small compared with effects of the child's sex, height, and ethnic background. Other variables, such as parents' height and weight, parents' education and family income, also have greater impacts on weight and triceps fatfold measurements than participation in the School Nutrition Programs.

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PubMed1984

The National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs: program impact on dietary intake.

This article describes the dietary analysis component of the National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs. It addresses two research questions: 1) do participants and nonparticipants in the school nutrition programs have different calorie and nutrient intakes for 24 h, breakfast, and/or lunch and 2) if there are differences in the nutritional quality or total quantity of food consumed? Students who participate in the School Lunch Program get more than nonparticipants of almost all nutrients that were examined, both at lunch and during 24 h. The superior lunch and 24-h intakes of Lunch Program participants are due to the higher nutritional quality of the School Lunch compared with lunches that nonparticipants eat. The most important impact of the School Breakfast is that when the program is available, it increases the likelihood that children will eat breakfast, and children who eat breakfast have significantly higher intakes of nutrients than children who skip breakfast. The School Breakfast provides more calcium, phosphorus, protein, and magnesium than a non-US Department of Agriculture breakfast, but less vitamin A, vitamin B6, niacin, thiamin, and iron. The positive impacts of calcium and phosphorus carry over 24 h, while the negative impacts for vitamin A, vitamin B6, niacin, thiamin, and iron are made up during the remainder of the day. Although strong conclusions cannot be drawn about the impact of the Milk Program, milk is an important component of all US Department of Agriculture school nutrition programs and makes a major contribution to student dietary intake. Its presence in the meal patterns probably accounts for some of the greater nutrient intakes associated with participation in the School Lunch Program and most of the greater intakes associated with participation in the School Breakfast Program.

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PubMedDate not supplied

Heart transplant nutrition programs: a national survey.

Cardiac cachexia and nutritional inadequacies have been cited as risk factors for poor outcome after heart transplantation. To evaluate the current status of nutritional support programs for heart transplant patients, we conducted a national survey of major transplant centers. Surveys were sent to 26 institutions, with 20 hospitals responding to the written questionnaire and providing samples of educational material from their nutrition programs. Although 80% of the hospitals surveyed included a dietitian as a member of the nutritional support team, dietitians participated in only 50% of the pretransplant teaching conferences. Nutritional status and care plans were discussed with patients and family members during the pretransplant conferences. At most centers (88%) nutritional status was assessed on a routine basis before the procedure. After transplantation, nutritional assessments were usually performed every 7 to 10 days. During the 2 to 4 weeks after surgery, the most common diets prescribed were low-fat, low-cholesterol diets that typically limited sodium intake. Thirty percent of the hospitals also restricted patients from eating fresh fruits and vegetables for 3 to 4 weeks after surgery, theoretically to minimize risk of certain infections. After patient discharge, most centers (68%) monitored nutritional status of patients during periodic clinic visits and yearly evaluations. This study demonstrated that nutritional management has become an important factor in the total medical care of the heart transplant patient. Findings of this survey were used to develop nutritional support program guidelines for heart transplant recipients at our institution. Further research is necessary before a standardized procedure for assessing and monitoring nutritional status of heart transplant patients can be developed.

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