Community Eligibility Provision and School Meal Participation among Student Subgroups

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BACKGROUND: The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs help to reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) enables high-poverty schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students. This study examines associations between CEP and participation among students eligible for free or reduced-price meals ("FRPM"), possibly eligible ("near-cutoff"), or ineligible ("full-price").

METHODS: Using data from the 2013-2015 Healthy Communities Study, we compared school breakfast and lunch participation between 842 students in K-8 at 80 CEP schools and 1463 students at 118 schools without CEP. Cross-sectional difference-in-difference (DID) models compared meal participation among near-cutoff and full-price groups to that in the FRPM group.

RESULTS: Overall, FRPM students had high participation in school lunch and breakfast at both types of schools. In adjusted DID models, lunch participation among near-cutoff students was 12 points higher in CEP versus comparison schools (p < .05). Among full-price students, breakfast participation was 20 points higher and lunch participation 19 points higher in CEP than comparison schools (p < .001).

CONCLUSIONS: Community Eligibility Provision improves access to school breakfast and lunch in high-poverty schools, particularly for students who are near or above the cutoff for FRPM eligibility.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:90

Enthalten in:

The Journal of school health - 90(2020), 10 vom: 04. Okt., Seite 802-811

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, May Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Laraia, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Madsen, Kristine A [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Rucker C [VerfasserIn]
Ritchie, Lorrene [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Community Eligibility Provision
Food insecurity
Journal Article
National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Nutrition
School breakfast
School lunch

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Date Completed 07.09.2021

Date Revised 07.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/josh.12942

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313301425