Scope: <span>Research</span>

Streamlining and Modernizing WIC Enrollment

This report explains why streamlining the certification process is important and describes opportunities for state and local policies to better support streamlining. Streamlining could free up staff time to devote […]

User-Centered Design of a Texas WIC ChatBot: Formative Investigation

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves people at nutritional risk, including: – Low income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women; – Children from infancy to […]

Maternal digital media use during infant feeding and the quality of feeding interactions

Experimental research with parents of older children suggests parents’ engagement with technological devices (e.g., television, mobile devices) in the presence of their children decreases the quality of parent-child interactions. Many […]

How WIC Gives Children a Healthy Start, Preventing Obesity in Early Childhood

In this blog, Georgia Machell, PhD, Senior Director, Research & Program Operations for the National WIC Association, and Jim Weill, J.D., President of Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), are interviewed […]

NP22 Development of the Children Eating Well (CHEW) Mobile Application for WIC Families in Tennessee

Objective Mobile applications (‘apps’) for WIC families are becoming increasingly prevalent, especially in states that have transitioned from paper vouchers to electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for WIC. Apps and other […]

Duration of WIC Participation Is Associated with Higher Dietary Quality at 24 Months (P11-048-19)

Objectives This study examined how duration of participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is associated with dietary quality at age 24 months using […]

Maternal Anxiety Symptoms and Mother-toddler Diet Quality Among WIC Participants (OR03-08-19)

Objectives To evaluate the longitudinal association between maternal anxiety and diet quality among low-income mothers and toddlers. Methods Longitudinal study of data collected from 267 mother-toddler dyads in an obesity […]

Changes in Food Consumption of WIC-Participating Infants and Children, 2008 vs. 2016

Objectives The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutritionally at-risk low-income pregnant women, infants and children up to 5 years of age with foods tailored […]

Assessing Child Health and Health Care in the U.S. Virgin Islands Using the National Survey of Children’s Health

Objectives To characterize the health and health care experiences of children in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), assess differences by household poverty status, and provide comparisons to the general U.S. […]

Qualitative Research on the Real-Time Decision Making of WIC Participants While Food Shopping: Use of Think-Aloud Methodology

Background People of lower socioeconomic status often experience disparities related to dietary intake as compared with People of higher socioeconomic status. Foods purchased influence the availability of foods in the […]

Scope: Research