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Food-shopping environment disparities in Texas WIC vendors: a pilot study
Christine A Tisone1, Selina A Guerra2, Wenhua Lu3
1Clinical Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. ctisone@hlkn.tamu.edu.
Objective:
To identify differences in food-shopping environments of Texas WIC vendors using a culturally adapted instrument.
Methods:
A survey tool was developed for measuring food availability, accessibility, and affordability in 111 WIC vendors in Texas. Two-tailed t-tests and Mann-Whitney tests were used for rural/urban and Texas-Mexico border/non-border area comparisons.
Results:
Prices were higher in rural areas than in urban areas for 2 key foods, fruits (p = .024) and milk (p = .007); non-border vendors had overall better food availability than border vendors; non-border vendors had better accessibility for fruits (p = .007) than border vendors.
Conclusion:
In Texas, disparities in food-shopping environments are evident and can be assessed using a culturally adapted survey tool.
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