Table 2.
Survey respondents’ perceived barriers to food access and how VSP facilitates healthy eating among respondents
| WITHOUT the Virtual Supermarket Program, these factors made it HARD for me to eat healthy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly Agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly Disagree | Don’t know | Prefer not to answer | |
| Availability of healthy food in my neighborhood | 42.4% | 20.7% | 2.2% | 31.5% | 3.3% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Transportation to and from the grocery store | 39.1% | 28.3% | 0.00% | 26.1% | 4.4% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| Cost of healthy food | 23.9% | 25.0% | 3.3% | 45.7% | 2.2% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Knowledge of how to buy & eat healthy food | 19.6% | 25.0% | 5.4% | 48.9% | 0.0% | 1.09% | 0.00% |
| WHY does the Virtual Supermarket make it easier to eat healthy? | |||||||
| N | % | ||||||
| Makes healthy food more available | 67 | 77.9 | |||||
| Means I don’t need transportation to and from the market | 56 | 65.1 | |||||
| Sells affordable healthy food | 52 | 60.5 | |||||
| Helps me know how to buy and eat healthy food | 48 | 55.8 | |||||