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Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Old Dominion University

2020

Benefit redemption

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Association Between Usage Of An App To Redeem Prescribed Food Benefits And Redemption Behaviors Among The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Participants: Cross-Sectional Study, Qi Zhang, Junzhou Zhang, Kayoung Park, Chuanyi Tang Jan 2020

Association Between Usage Of An App To Redeem Prescribed Food Benefits And Redemption Behaviors Among The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Participants: Cross-Sectional Study, Qi Zhang, Junzhou Zhang, Kayoung Park, Chuanyi Tang

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is one of the most important food assistance programs in the United States, serving 6.4 million low-income, eligible women, infants, and children under 5 years of age in 2019. In the program, participants are prescribed a list of food benefits, which can be redeemed in WIC-authorized stores. However, there are multiple behavioral barriers in the program and the stores that prevent participants from redeeming the benefits fully.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the relationship between the use of a widely used mobile phone app, WICShopper, and the …