Examination of dietary habits and fruit and vegetable intake in a chronic disease program.

摘要

The AHB program is a chronic disease prevention program which provided resources for 12 community health centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Healthy dietary habits and fruits/ vegetables intake play important roles in maintaining human health. I used eight modifiable factors to evaluate the success of the AHB program, and dietary habits and fruits/vegetables intake were examined separately. Another twenty factors were considered to predict dietary habits and fruits/vegetables intake status. I used Chi-square and multinomial logistic regression to study their correlation to dietary habits and fruits/vegetables intake status. I found that factors like birth country, employment, diabetes, baseline HbA1c, limited by problems, overall program quality, group, and program duration were correlated to the dietary habits, and factors like birth country, employment, insurance, diabetes, baseline HbA1c, family history of diabetes, group, and program duration were correlated to the fruits/vegetables intake. This study is informative to public health workers to design a proper program to improve border Hispanic's health.