GENIE: Your Nutrition Education Wishes

Have Been Granted!

Guide for Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education

Guide for Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education

Moderator: Joanne Ikeda, MA, RDN Nutritionist Emeritus University of California, Berkeley Presenters: Katie Brown, EdD, RDN National Education Director Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation Rosa K. Hand, MS, RDN, LD Senior Manager Dietetics Practice Based Research Network Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the process used in developing and validating the Guide for Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education (GENIE).

2. Develop skills to utilize the online GENIE checklist and become familiar with GENIE’s resources.

3. Apply GENIE’s criteria to benefit your professional practice.

What is GENIE and why was it created?

What is GENIE?

– A rigorously validated free, simple-to-use online tool for nutrition education program proposal review

– A tool for designing, modifying or comparing nutrition education program proposals

– A kit of resources for program planners

Background

Nutrition education is important, but ‘good’ nutrition education is not clearly defined1,2,3. • Educators need to be able to include components in program

proposal design to be competitive and receive funding. • Funders need to be able to identify what a ‘good’ nutrition

education program proposal look like

GENIE Partners • ConAgra Foods Foundation • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Research International and

Scientific Affairs team

The Fellowship model 1. Brun J. Nutrition education: A model for effectiveness a synthesis of research. J Nutr Educ. 1985;17(2):ii–S44.

doi:10.1016/S0022-3182(85)80001-7.

2. Ho M, Garnett SP, Baur L, et al. Effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in child obesity: systematic review with meta-

analysis. Pediatrics. 2012;130(6):e1647–71. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-1176.

3. Sims, Laura S. E. [Special Issue]. J Nutr Educ. 1995;27(6):284–286. doi:10.1016/S0022-3182(12)80087-2.

How was GENIE validated?

The GENIE Team

Rosa K Hand, MS, RDN, LD 1

Senior Manager, Dietetics Practice Based Research Network

Jenica K Abram, MPH, RDN, LDN 1

ConAgra Foods Foundation Nutrition Education Research Fellow

Katie Brown EdD, RDN 2

National Education Director Paula J Ziegler, PhD, RDN, CFCS 1

Senior Director, Research and Evidence Analysis

J. Scott Parrott, PhD 3

Associate Professor Alison L Steiber, PhD, RDN 1

Chief Science Officer

1 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, 3 Rutgers University

1. Establish Face and Content Validity

2. Criterion Validity and Inter-rater Reliability

3.Literature Review

Publication on part 3: Abram, JK; Hand, RK; Brown, K; Parrott, JS; Ziegler P, Steiber

A. What is Your Nutrition Program Missing? Finding Answers with the Guide for

Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education (GENIE).

http://www.andjrnl.org/article/S2212-2672(14)01357-4/abstract

What are GENIE’s 9 categories?

GENIE’s 9 Categories

How does one access and use GENIE?

sm.eatright.org/GENIE

What is the GENIE report?

GENIE Score Page

How does one use GENIE to assess an existing

program?

GENIE Score Page

Can answers be revised after making

improvements?

GENIE Score Page

What are some of the resources available on

GENIE?

GENIE Resources

Resource Kit

Training Materials

Can you share an example of how someone

could use GENIE and the resources to improve a program?

Proposed Program

Program Overview: 4, 90 minute classes held at firehouse, part of est. meetings Program Plan: Each class will include a 30 minute lesson on portion control/ weight management, a 30 minute group physical activity, and 30 minutes food prep/ taste test Qualifications: Experience providing nutrition education programs to community organizations such as high school sports teams, senior programs, and scout groups Goals and Objectives:

• Knowledge- Fire fighters can describe why portion control and physical activity are important for weight management

• Short Term Behavior- Fire fighters exercise portion control and engage in regular physical activity

• Long Term Outcome- Fire fighters are able to maintain or lose weight over the next 6 months.

Evaluation: Self-designed survey to evaluate portion control and physical activity behaviors and self-reported weights

Proposed Program- Where can we improve?

Category 3: Program Framework • No research or best-practice example to back up

structure or content of the program Category 5: Program Methods

• Does not explain why planned teaching time/ dose are adequate or appropriate

Category 8: Evaluation • Self-designed survey has not been tested. Unknown

reliability and validity. Category 9: Sustainability

• Program does not address potential for continuity and lacks collaboration with partners/ community

GENIE Resources

Proposed Program- What did we change?

Category 3: Program Framework • No research or best-practice exampled to back up

structure or content of the program

Proposed Program- What did we change?

Category 8: Evaluation • Self-designed survey has not been tested. Unknown

reliability and validity.

Proposed Program- What did we change?

Category 9: Sustainability • Program does not address potential for continuity and

lacks collaboration with partners/ community

Proposed Program Score

How are funders using GENIE?

How can GENIE change the way nutrition

education programs are planned?

How GENIE can be used

• Enhance educators’ skill and confidence • Choose appropriate lessons • Arrange space to facilitate learning • Modify activities as appropriate • Encourage providers to include parents • Use a variety of instructional methods • Engage youth on multiple levels

Apply GENIE: • New programs • Comparing programs • Modifying programs • Advising others

What else would you like to add about GENIE?

Summary

GENIE is a reliable, validated tool that can be used to create, modify, or assess a variety of nutrition education program plans.

GENIE can be used by nutrition education practitioners and

nutrition education funders including those without any nutrition knowledge or training.

The GENIE checklist, resources, videos and training materials can

help you develop a stronger nutrition education proposal. Nutrition education funders are beginning to use GENIE as a

method of evaluating proposals. GENIE is free and available to the public: sm.eatright.org/GENIE

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the individuals and organizations who shared their proposals for the purposes of this study.

Expert panelists: Maria Ali, Amanda Birnbaum, Karen Chapman-Novakofski, Sarah Colby, Phyllis Crowley, Amy Knoblock-Hahn, Donna McDuffie, Megan Nechanicky, Sandy Proctor, Margie Tate

DPBRN reviewers:

Sara Beckwith, Elsa Ramirez Brisson, Frances Catinella, Mary Ellen DiPaolo, Sari Edelstein, Beth Gillham, Heather Heefner,

Kate Hoy, Jill Kennedy, Kate Machado, Robin Nwankwo, Susan Parks, Kathy Tigue

sm.eatright.org/GENIE

Participant Q&A

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