Navajo County Public Health Services District

Cherilyn Yazzie, Program ManagerCherilyn.Yazzie@navajocountyaz.gov928-524-4750 ext. 18

Navajo County

• Almost 55% of Navajo County’s 9,959 square miles is Indian Reservation home to the Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache and Hopi Tribes.

5 A Day Program for 2nd Grade

• 5 A Day program promotes the goal of eating 5 servings of colorful fruits and vegetables per day.

• 5 A Day program is a 4 lesson nutrition classroom presentation. The presentation includes visual aids, educational materials and a pre-post test for the students.

• The Parent Surveys were added to the program and given in 9-2nd grade classrooms at Park Elementary and Seven Mile Elementary schools.

5 A Day Parent Survey

• The purpose of this parent survey was to find out if the nutrition information, brochures, take-home handouts were reaching the parents or care givers at home.

• We were also looking for parent feedback about types of nutrition information they were interested in learning more about.

5 A Day Parent Survey

• Logo recognition, milk consumption, physical activity, and what nutritional information they would be interested in receiving were also identified.

Survey Demographics

• 170 parent surveys were returned. • 80% of respondents were non-Hispanics (n=135)• Majority (57%) of respondents were American Indian

or Alaska Natives. • 82% respondents were female. • Average age of respondents were 33.4, with a range

from 21 to 48 years of age.• Less than half reported using food stamps (38%,

n=65)

Demographics TableGraph 1. Race of Respondents,

2nd Grade 5 A Day Parent Survey, Navajo County, 2007 African

American1%Missing

9%

More than 1 race

6%

Pacific Islander

1%

American Indian57%

White26%

Results

• 78% (n=109) of parents reported that their child had talked to them about the 5 fruits & vegetables a day lessons that they had been learning at school.

• 77% (n=131) of parents reported that they had seen the FFN that their child brought home from school.

• Over half 65% (n=111) of parents reported that they were planning on trying the recipes in the FFN.

Results

• Just over half 54% (n=92) of parents reported using 2% reduced fat milk for drinking or cooking. Table to the right show the number and percentage of parents who reported using various types of milk.

Table. Milk Consumption By Type5 A Day Parent Surveys

Type Number Percent

Skim or fat free 9 5.2%

1% low fat 11 6.4%

2% reduced fat 92 54.1%

Whole 39 22.9%

Combination of milk types

16 9.4%

Refused 1 0.6%

Other: Organic 2 1.2%

Other: Dry Milk 1 0.6%

Results

• 75% (n=128) of parents reported participanting in physical activity in the past 30 days.

• The vast majority 75% (n=128) of parents reported that they knew how to read the Nutrition Facts Label.

• A picture of the 5 A Day logo was provided, almost all the parents 95% (n=132) knew that the logo meant to “Eat five or most colorful fruits and vegetables per day.”

Write in Comments

• A write-in comment section was provided for parents to indicate what kind of nutrition information they would like to have for their family.

• Over half (59%) of respondents answered the question.

• Themes included wanting more information on healthy eating, more healthy recipes, and healthy cooking.

Discussion

• Drawing from the survey, • Parents received information about nutrition, • The respondents were mostly minority

women, average age was 33.4, and non-Hispanic.

• They drink and cook with 2% milk. • They are interested in learning more about

nutrition for their families.

What Now??? Good Question..

• Does anyone have ideas?

Applications

• We will continue to provide the FFN as take home handouts.

• Survey the parents again. • We will add a question, asking the parents

about nutrition program satisfaction. • It will help us with curriculum choices to

provide at schools.

Questions? Comments…

Thank You!!

AzNN Staff & Shelly Kuklish, For Helping me withYour technical support.