A Randomized Intervention of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education Did Not Improve Dietary Outcomes Except for Vitamin D Among Lower-Income Women in Indiana.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a direct SNAP-Ed intervention in which participants actively engage in learning with educator instruction about dietary quality and usual intake of key nutrient and food groups among Indiana SNAP-Ed-eligible women participants as an example sample in the context of no similar existing evaluation.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 97 women taking part.

PubMed tags the participants as women only.

Participants (18 years and older; n = 97 women) eligible for SNAP-Ed and interested in receiving nutrition education lessons were recruited from 31 Indiana counties from August 2015 to May 2016 and randomized to an intervention (n = 53) or control (n = 44) group.

The intervention comprised core lessons of Indiana SNAP-Ed delivered between 4 and 10 weeks after baseline assessment.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized and parallel-group study.

The women were allocated by chance, so the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group and the comparison group should start out alike.

The Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group and the comparison group ran side by side rather than switching.

The study design was a parallel-arm, randomized controlled, nutrition education intervention, with follow-up at 1 year.

Each participant completed a baseline and 1-year follow-up assessment.

Dietary intake was assessed using repeated 24-hour dietary recalls (up to 2).

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including United States, Indiana, Vitamin D, Food Assistance, Diet and Vitamins.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Diet quality, Low-income, Nutrition education, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education and Usual dietary intake.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and parallel-group study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 97 women.

Its findings take up roughly 4 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2023 (Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.