title: Nutrition environment measures survey-vending: development, dissemination, and reliability.
abstract: Researchers determined a need to develop an instrument to assess the vending machine environment that was comparably reliable and valid to other Nutrition Environment Measures Survey tools and that would provide consistent and comparable data for businesses, schools, and communities. Tool development, reliability testing, and dissemination of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey-Vending (NEMS-V) involved a collaboration of students, professionals, and community leaders. Interrater reliability testing showed high levels of agreement among trained raters on the products and evaluations of products. NEMS-V can benefit public health partners implementing policy and environmental change initiatives as a part of their community wellness activities. The vending machine project will support a policy calling for state facilities to provide a minimum of 30% of foods and beverages in vending machines as healthy options, based on NEMS-V criteria, which will be used as a model for other businesses.
authors: Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA 50319, USA. carol.voss@idph.iowa.gov
authors: Carol
authors: C
authors: Voss
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Klein
authors: Karen
authors: K
authors: Glanz
authors: Margaret
authors: M
authors: Clawson
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003132:Commerce; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005502:Food / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D009753:Nutritive Value; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students