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The food resource management strategies employed by low-income adults in New Jersey

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The food resource management strategies employed by low-income adults in New Jersey
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Johnson
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Charita J.
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1989-
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Charita Johnson
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Palmer
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Debra M
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Debra M Palmer
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chair
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Fitzgerald
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Nurgul Fitzgerald
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Rodgers
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Yana van der Meulen
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Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-10
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eng
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Food insecurity is a major public health issue by which low-income individuals are disproportionately affected. Food and nutrition assistance programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), were created in an attempt to lower food insecurity prevalence among those with limited incomes. However, many low-income individuals that receive nutrition assistance remain food insecure. Employing food resource management (FRM) skills may help low-income people stretch their food budgets and ultimately increase their food security. But, if nutrition educators are to provide impactful education regarding FRM, they must be familiar with the spectrum of practices that can effectively be used by their target audience. To date, no research has been conducted to catalogue the FRM strategies employed by low-income people, nor to determine which strategies contribute to monetary savings and increased food security. This investigation was designed to learn what FRM behaviors low-income individuals employ, as a preliminary step towards determining optimal FRM practices for this audience. Face to face interviews (n=201) were conducted at agencies that serve this target audience throughout New Jersey. The results from this study demonstrated that there is a large gap between the FRM behaviors taught in nutrition education for low-income people to those that are actually employed, most notably among individuals with children who use multiple strategies to reduce their children’s influences on their food purchases. Use of a combination of FRM nutrition education and nutrition assistance may decrease the high rates of food insecurity among low-income people. Further research should be conducted to examine the relative contribution of FRM behaviors in helping low-income people save money and increase their food security. Research of that type may be rigorous and timely, hence, in the interim nutrition educators should consider teaching the FRM behaviors identified in this work that they feel will be beneficial to their target population.
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Nutritional Sciences
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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x, 110 p. : ill.
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Charita J. Johnson
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Food security--New Jersey
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Low-income consumers--New Jersey--Social conditions--21st century
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.)
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3RN35WB
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ETD graduate
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Johnson
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Charita
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2013-09-24 17:57:05
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