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Jan 29, 2024 · Across the Food Banks Canada network of 4,750 food banks and community agencies, many of our members have been experimenting with choice models to improve experiences for clients with dietary restrictions, increase opportunities for social connection and, very practically, to reduce waste.
Andrew Chang explains how 'choice model' food banks work, why the size and scope of this new project set it apart and whether it signals a future shift in food banking.
- 11 min
- Study Aims
- Study Design
- Participants and Setting
- Survey Questionnaire Design
- Statistical Analysis
- Main Outcome Measure
- Main Variables of Interest
- Covariates
- Sample Size and Attrition
The main aim of this study is to model changes in food insecurity over time and identify their associations with different types of food bank approaches offered in Ottawa. We also report on food bank use and examine change in physical and mental health over the 18-month period.
This observational prospective study was conducted from November 2017 until December 2019 and involved repeated surveys of the same cohort of participants over four time points. A baseline survey and three follow-up surveys were conducted at intervals of approximately 6 months, such that there was a total span of approximately 18 months between the...
The participants in this study were people who accessed community food banks in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Eleven of twenty-six community food banks within the Ottawa Food Bank (OFB) network were included in this study. The eleven food banks were identified and recruited in collaboration with the OFB, which is the central collection and distribution ...
The survey questionnaire sought to measure the participants’ demographics, duration and frequency of food bank access, level of food insecurity, and self-reported physical health and mental health. Food security was measured using the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM), an 18-item measure used in national population health surveys in Can...
We assessed descriptive statistics to demonstrate demographic characteristics of the study sample. We report the means and standard deviations of participants’ age and perceived physical and mental health scores at the four waves of data collection. We also summarized the proportions of people with different gender identities, education; monthly in...
We used both categorical and continuous scales as each of them serve a particular purpose in our analysis. As explained in detail by Carlson et al. and Bickel et al. , the Food Security Scale is a continuous linear scale, developed to measure the degree of severity of food insecurity/hunger experienced by a household in terms of a single numerical...
The main variables of interest (the independent variables / IVs) were the food banking models used in the eleven participating food banks: 1. 1) Food bank type: integrated within a Community Resource Centre (CRC IV): a dichotomous variable: 0 = not CRC, 1 = is a CRC. 2. 2) Choice distribution model(Choice IV): a dichotomous variable: 0 = Hamper mod...
Individual covariates included in the analyses were: age at baseline, gender, monthly household income, having dependents in the household or not, ethnicity, whether born in Canada or not, married/living with a partner or not, perceived physical health and perceived mental health.
We used the Generalized Linear Mixed Model Power and Sample Size (GLIMMPSE) software (https://glimmpse.samplesizeshop.org) to estimate the sufficient sample size needed to model food security score, using a multi-level mixed effect model with repeated measures across four waves of data collection. The sufficient sample size estimated to detect a ta...
- Anita Rizvi, Rania Wasfi, Rania Wasfi, Aganeta Enns, Elizabeth Kristjansson
- 2021
Aug 24, 2022 · Most food pantries are familiar with the benefits of client choice: By offering patrons the option of what foods they would like, rather than handing over a prepackaged box, pantries reduce waste, improve service quality and — most importantly — preserve dignity by letting clients decide what they want to eat.
Nov 29, 2023 · Food banks in Ontario saw a nearly 40 percent jump in use from April 2022 to April 2023, doubling the record for a single year increase. And globally, a U.N. report found that more than 258...
Mar 24, 2021 · For readers working in the anti-hunger field and those looking to get involved, Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries provides historical context, data-driven examples of particularly effective organizations, and a clear eye toward the future.
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Apr 22, 2021 · Food banks offer some relief of food insecurity but they don't eliminate the problem. In this study, reductions in food insecurity were associated with food banks that offered a Choice model and those that were integrated within a Community Resource Centre.
