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Background: Health care-based food assistance programs show promise but are underutilized. Strict eligibility requirements and program scheduling may dampen reach and outcomes., Objective: To explore factors associated with uptake of a health center-based mobile produce market with no eligibility requirements and few barriers to entry., Design: A cross-sectional analysis of medical record, sociodemographic, environmental, and market attendance data was used., Participants/setting: The study sample consisted of 3071 adults (18+ years) who were patients of an urban health center in eastern Massachusetts and registered for the mobile market during the study period of August 2016 to February 2020., Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome measure was monthly market attendance over the study period., Statistical Analyses: T-tests and χ 2 tests were used to compare market users and never-users. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze variables associated with market attendance each month., Results: In multiple variable analyses, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollment was associated with slightly less frequent monthly market use (odds ratio [OR], 0.989; 95% CI, 0.984-0.994). Day-of, on-site market registration was associated with more frequent monthly use than self-registration on nonmarket days (OR, 1.08; 95% CI, 1.07-1.08). Having a psychiatric or substance use disorder diagnosis was associated with slightly less frequent market attendance (OR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.98-0.99; and OR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.95-0.97, respectively) compared with registrants without these diagnoses., Conclusions: Individual, community-level, and organizational factors are associated with uptake of a free mobile produce market and should be considered when designing programs., (Copyright © 2024 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Healthcare-based food assistance programs have the potential to improve patients' food security, but are underutilized. We conducted a qualitative study of user and staff perceptions of an on-site mobile market at a federally-qualified health center (FQHC). Five themes were identified: 1) financial need drives the decision to use the market, 2) people attend specifically to receive healthy food, 3) users feel a connection to the FQHC, which increases participation, 4) social networks increase usage of the program, and 5) long lines, inclement weather, inaccessibility, and inconsistent marketing and communication are attendance barriers. Findings should inform implementation of future healthcare-based food assistance programs., Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: This work was supported by the Boston University School of Public Health Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence Doctoral Fellowship in Maternal Child Health Epidemiology (R.R.). The funder had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare., (Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.)

This scoping review aimed to identify the breadth of healthcare-based food assistance programmes in the United States and organize them into a typology of programmes to provide implementation guidance to aspiring food assistance programmers in healthcare settings. We searched PubMed, Cochrane, and CINAHL databases for peer-reviewed articles published between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2021, and mined reference lists. We used content analysis to extract programmatic details from each intervention and to qualitatively analyse intervention components to develop a typology for healthcare institutions in the United States. Eligible articles included descriptions of patient populations served and programmatic details. Articles were not required to include formal evaluations for inclusion in this scoping review. Our search resulted in 8706 abstracts, which yielded forty-three articles from thirty-five interventions. We identified three distinct programme types: direct food provision, referral, and voucher programmes. Programme type was influenced by programme goals, logistical considerations, such as staffing, food storage or refrigeration space, and existence of willing partner CBOs. Food provision programmes ( n 13) were frequently permanent and leveraged partnerships with community-based organisations (CBOs) that provide food. Referral programmes ( n 8) connected patients to CBOs for federal or local food assistance enrollment. Voucher programmes ( n 14) prioritised provision of fruits and vegetables ( n 10) and relied on a variety of clinic staff to refer patients to months-long programmes. Healthcare-based implementers can use this typology to design and maintain programmes that align with the needs of their sites and patient populations., (© The Author(s) 2023.)

Objective: To examine neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological predictors of progression from normal to early clinical stages of Alzheimer disease (AD)., Methods: From a total sample of 559 older adults from the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center longitudinal cohort, 454 were included in the primary analysis: 283 with clinically normal cognition (CN), 115 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 56 with subjective cognitive concerns (SCC) but no objective impairment, a proposed transitional group between CN and MCI. Two latent cognitive factors (memory-semantic, attention-executive) and two neuropsychiatric factors (affective, psychotic) were derived from the Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set neuropsychological battery and Neuropsychiatric Inventory brief questionnaire. Factors were analyzed as predictors of time to progression to a worse diagnosis using a Cox proportional hazards regression model with backward elimination. Covariates included baseline diagnosis, gender, age, education, prior depression, antidepressant medication, symptom duration, and interaction terms., Results: Higher/better memory-semantic factor score predicted lower hazard of progression (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.4 for 1 standard deviation [SD] increase, p <0.0001), and higher/worse affective factor score predicted higher hazard (HR = 1.3 for one SD increase, p = 0.01). No other predictors were significant in adjusted analyses. Using diagnosis as a sole predictor of transition to MCI, the SCC diagnosis carried a fourfold risk of progression compared with CN (HR = 4.1, p <0.0001)., Conclusion: These results identify affective and memory-semantic factors as significant predictors of more rapid progression from normal to early stages of cognitive decline and highlight the subgroup of cognitively normal elderly with SCC as those with elevated risk of progression to MCI., (Copyright © 2014 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)