Table 3.
Characteristics that differ by nutrition incentive program setting of use: grocery store, farmers’ market, or both (at p < 0.1).
| Nutrition Incentive Program Users | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grocery Store Only (n = 83) |
Farmers’ Market Only (n = 41) |
Both (n = 15) |
p-Value for Difference | ||||
| Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | ||
| Economic Domain | |||||||
| Over the past 6 months, about how much Produce Perks did you receive from the location of first use? | 20 | 10, 50 | 20 | 10, 50 | 100 | 20, 200 | 0.030 b |
| Service Domain | |||||||
| How does the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables at your primary store compare to the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables at the farmers’ market? (1 = much greater variety, 5 = much less variety) | 3 | 2, 4 | 4 | 3, 5 | 4 | 3, 5 | <0.001 b |
| Spatial Temporal Domain | |||||||
| Number of visits per month to your primary store | 4 | 2, 8 | 3 | 2, 4 | 2 | 3, 4 | 0.009 b |
| Social Domain | |||||||
| Think about friends, family, or people you know, about how many shopped at the promoted store offering Produce Perks over the past 6 months? (1 = none, 5 = all) | 3 | 2, 5 | 2 | 2, 3 | 2.5 | 2, 4 | 0.054 b |
| Think about friends, family, or people you know, about how many have shopped at your farmers’ market over the past 6 months? (1 = none, 5 = all) | 2 | 2, 3 | 2 | 1, 3 | 2.5 | 2, 4 | 0.091 b |
| Personal Domain | |||||||
| Number of months since first Produce Perks use | 3 | 1, 7 | 13 | 2, 30 | 8 | 3, 36 | <0.001 b |
| How often do you purchase fruits and vegetables when you go to your primary store? (1 = never, 5 = always) | 4 | 3, 5 | 5 | 4, 5 | 5 | 5, 5 | <0.001 b |
| Number of times per month ate “other” vegetables (beyond beans, dark green or orange vegetables) | 12 | 6, 28 | 20 | 8, 30 | 30 | 15, 30 | 0.007 b |
| Confidence in preparing fresh green vegetables (1 = not at all confident, 5 = extremely confident) |
4 | 4, 5 | 5 | 4, 5 | 5 | 5, 5 | 0.008 b |
| Confidence in preparing root vegetables (1 = not at all confident, 5 = extremely confident) |
4 | 4, 5 | 5 | 4, 5 | 5 | 4, 5 | 0.018 b |
| Education | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | 0.025 b |
| Some high school or less | 8 | 9.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| High school graduate | 38 | 45.8 | 16 | 38.1 | 3 | 20.0 | |
| Some college or more | 37 | 44.6 | 26 | 61.9 | 12 | 80.0 | |
| Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | ||
| Age in years | 56 | 37, 62 | 60 | 47, 69 | 53 | 42, 57 | 0.038 b |
| Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | ||
| Black, race | 63 | 75.9 | 23 | 54.8 | 10 | 66.7 | 0.056 c |
| Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | Median | IQR a | ||
| Number of times per month ate beans | 3 | 2, 4 | 4 | 2, 5 | 4 | 3, 8 | 0.062 b |
| Number of adults in your household | 1 (Mean:1.3) |
1, 1 | 1 (Mean:1.6) |
1, 2 | 1 (Mean:1.6) |
1, 2 | 0.067 b |
| Number of times per month cooked meals made from scratch or using whole foods | 16 | 8, 30 | 20 | 12, 30 | 28 | 20, 30 | 0.076 b |
a Interquartile range. b Kruskal–Wallis (non-parametric analog of ANOVA, assumes ordinal rather than normally distributed interval). c Fisher’s exact test (non-parametric analog of the chi-squared test).