Impact of a farmers’ market healthy food subsidy on the diet quality of adults with low incomes in British Columbia, Canada: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Date
2023-02-01
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Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
Adults with low incomes have lower diet quality than their higher income counterparts. In Canada, the British Columbia Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program (FMNCP) provides coupons to low-income households to purchase healthy foods in farmers’ markets.
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Keywords
Randomized controlled trial, diet quality, Healthy Eating Index, low-income, adults, 32 farmers’ market, healthy food subsidy, 24-hour dietary recall
Citation
Aktary, M. L., Dunn, S., Sajobi, T., O’Hara, H., Leblanc, P., McCormack, G. R., Caron-Roy, S., Ball, K., Lee, Y. Y., Nejatinamini, S., Reimer, R. A., Pan, B., Minaker, L. M., Raine, K. D., Godley, J., Downs, S., Nykiforuk, C. I. J., & Lee Olstad, D. (2023). Impact of a farmers’ market healthy food subsidy on the diet quality of adults with low incomes in British Columbia, Canada: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.01.017