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The Impact Of Internet Vs. Traditional Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Nutrition Education On Fruit And Vegetable Intake, Robert J. Bensley Dec 2010

The Impact Of Internet Vs. Traditional Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Nutrition Education On Fruit And Vegetable Intake, Robert J. Bensley

Robert J Bensley

The purpose of this project was to compare the impact of Internet nutrition education to traditional nutrition education on Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participant fruit and vegetable consumption. Interventions were delivered at 15 WIC clinics after normal WIC clinic operations or delivered online. A total of 692 and 872 participants from eight WIC agencies self-enrolled into two phases. A quasi experimental design using an interrupted time series to determine the impact of two methods of nutrition education and follow-up nutrition counseling was used. Data were collected online and at Michigan WIC clinics during 2005-2007 …