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    A process evaluation of a randomized-controlled trial of community gardening to improve health behaviors and reduce stress and anxiety

    As part of the Community Activation for Prevention (CAPS) randomized controlled trial (RCT) of community gardening, we conducted a process evaluation to assess the implementation of a community gardening inter...

    Eva Coringrato, Katherine Alaimo, Jenn A. Leiferman, Angel Villalobos… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Amplifying Health Through Community Gardens: A Framework for Advancing Multicomponent, Behaviorally Based Neighborhood Interventions

    The article presents a framework for understanding the relationship between community garden participation, and the myriad ways gardens and participation lead to emotional, social, and health impacts. Existing...

    Katherine Alaimo, Alyssa W. Beavers… in Current Environmental Health Reports (2016)

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    Harvesting Health in the Garden

    Among the primary health benefits associated with community gardening are improvements in the healthfulness of gardeners’ diets and the amount of physical activity. Community gardens can make it easier for par...

    Katherine Alaimo, Caroline Crawford, Elizabeth Hodges Snyder in Sowing Seeds in the City (2016)

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    Social Health and Social Capital

    Community gardening is a form of collective action that involves at least two individuals collaborating to create or cultivate a garden. As such, the attraction of community gardening is broader than food prod...

    Caroline Crawford, Katherine Alaimo in Sowing Seeds in the City (2016)

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    Project FIT: A School, Community and Social Marketing Intervention Improves Healthy Eating Among Low-Income Elementary School Children

    Project FIT was a two-year multi-component nutrition and physical activity intervention delivered in ethnically-diverse low-income elementary schools in Grand Rapids, MI. This paper reports effects on children...

    Katherine Alaimo, Joseph J. Carlson, Karin A. Pfeiffer… in Journal of Community Health (2015)

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    Project FIT: Rationale, design and baseline characteristics of a school- and community-based intervention to address physical activity and healthy eating among low-income elementary school children

    This paper describes Project FIT, a collaboration between the public school system, local health systems, physicians, neighborhood associations, businesses, faith-based leaders, community agencies and universi...

    Joey C Eisenmann, Katherine Alaimo, Karin Pfeiffer, Hye-** Paek… in BMC Public Health (2011)

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