Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
8-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Biology
First Advisor
Dr. Mohammed Farooqui
Second Advisor
Dr. Xiaohui Wang
Third Advisor
Dr. Robert Edwards
Abstract
The AHB program is a chronic disease prevention program which provides resources for community health centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Healthy dietary habits and fruit/ vegetable intake play important roles in maintaining human health. Eight factors were used to evaluate the success of the AHB program. Another twenty factors were considered to predict dietary habits and fruit/vegetable intake status. Chi-square and multinomial logistic regression were used to study their correlation. Results from analysis showed 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, the family history of diabetes, group, and program duration were correlated to the fruit/vegetable intake. This study is informative to public health workers to improve border Hispanic’s health.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
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