title: Food-shopping environment disparities in Texas WIC vendors: a pilot study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify differences in food-shopping environments of Texas WIC vendors using a culturally adapted instrument.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey tool was developed for measuring food availability, accessibility, and affordability in 111 WIC vendors in Texas. Two-tailed t-tests and Mann-Whitney tests were used for rural/urban and Texas-Mexico border/non-border area comparisons.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Prices were higher in rural areas than in urban areas for 2 key foods, fruits (p = .024) and milk (p = .007); non-border vendors had overall better food availability than border vendors; non-border vendors had better accessibility for fruits (p = .007) than border vendors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In Texas, disparities in food-shopping environments are evident and can be assessed using a culturally adapted survey tool.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. ctisone@hlkn.tamu.edu.
authors.forename: Christine A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Tisone
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Selina A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Guerra
authors.affiliation: Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Wenhua
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: E Lisako J
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: McKyer
authors.affiliation: Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences, Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ory
authors.affiliation: Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences, Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dowdy
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Suojin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Jingang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.affiliation: Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.affiliation: Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Deanna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hoelscher
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D063105:Food Assistance; D005523:Food Supply; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012424:Rural Population; D012931:Social Environment; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013781:Texas; D014505:Urban Population