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Raise Your Voice To Promote Childhood Vaccines: Vaccines Save Lives, Janice Hawkins
Raise Your Voice To Promote Childhood Vaccines: Vaccines Save Lives, Janice Hawkins
Nursing Faculty Publications
[First paragraph] The current pandemic has increased our awareness of the importance of vaccines. As COVID-19 spread across the globe, the world raced to fight the disease. Vaccines rolled out in record time, and mass vaccination clinics are underway.
Assessment Of Cooking Matters Facebook Platform To Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Low-Income Caregivers Of Young Children In The United States: A Pilot Study, Qi Zhang, Jill Panichelli, Leigh Ann Hall
Assessment Of Cooking Matters Facebook Platform To Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Low-Income Caregivers Of Young Children In The United States: A Pilot Study, Qi Zhang, Jill Panichelli, Leigh Ann Hall
Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications
How best to deliver healthy-eating education through social media among a low-income population remains understudied. To assess the impact of the Cooking Matters (CM) Facebook page on healthy eating behaviors among low-income caregivers, we conducted a pre–post survey of new CM Facebook followers in early 2020. A convenience sample was recruited at baseline from WICShopper app users and the CM Facebook page. The recruited sample included 397 low-income caregivers of a child younger than 6 who never followed CM Facebook. Among the baseline caregivers, 184 completed the follow-up survey. Paired t-test and McNemar–Bowker tests were conducted to compare the outcomes …