Long Christopher R, Rowland Brett, Steelman Susan C, McElfish Pearl A
College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
Office of Community Health and Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
BMJ Open. 2017 Oct 5;7(10):e018022. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018022.
Food insecurity is a difficulty faced in many households. During periods of food insecurity, households often seek food supplied by food pantries and food banks. Food insecurity has been associated with increased risk for several health conditions. For this reason, food pantries and food banks may have great promise as intervention sites, and health researchers have begun targeting food pantries and food banks as sites for disease prevention or management interventions. The aim of the scoping review is to examine disease prevention or management interventions implemented in food pantries and food banks.
Relevant electronic databases (eg, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature-CINAHL Complete, Science Citation Index, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) will be searched for articles with a publication date of 1997 or later using Medical Subject Headings and key terms, including food aid, food banks, food pantries, food shelves, hunger, food insecurity and related concepts. For each de-duplicated study record identified by the search strategy, two reviewers will independently assess whether the study meets eligibility criteria (eg, related to intervention type, context). The reviewers will examine studies' titles, abstracts and full text, comparing eligibility decisions to address any discrepancies. For each eligible study, data extraction will be executed by two reviewers independently, comparing extracted data to address any discrepancies. Extracted data will be synthesised and reported in a narrative review assessing the coverage and gaps in existing literature related to disease prevention and management interventions implemented in food pantries.
The review's results will be useful to healthcare practitioners who work with food-insecure populations, healthcare researchers and food pantry or food bank personnel. The results of this scoping review will be submitted for publication to a peer-reviewed journal, and the authors will share the findings with food pantry and food bank stakeholder groups with whom they work.
粮食不安全是许多家庭面临的难题。在粮食不安全时期，家庭常常寻求食品储藏室和食品银行提供的食物。粮食不安全与多种健康状况风险增加有关。因此，食品储藏室和食品银行作为干预场所可能具有很大潜力，健康研究人员已开始将食品储藏室和食品银行作为疾病预防或管理干预的场所。本范围综述的目的是考察在食品储藏室和食品银行实施的疾病预防或管理干预措施。
将使用医学主题词和关键词，在相关电子数据库（如MEDLINE、护理及相关健康文献累积索引 - CINAHL Complete、科学引文索引、Cochrane系统评价数据库）中检索1997年或之后发表的文章，关键词包括食品援助、食品银行、食品储藏室、食品货架、饥饿、粮食不安全及相关概念。对于搜索策略确定的每条去重后的研究记录，两名评审员将独立评估该研究是否符合纳入标准（如与干预类型、背景相关）。评审员将检查研究的标题、摘要和全文，比较纳入决定以解决任何差异。对于每项符合条件的研究，数据提取将由两名评审员独立进行，比较提取的数据以解决任何差异。提取的数据将进行综合，并在叙述性综述中报告，评估与食品储藏室实施的疾病预防和管理干预措施相关的现有文献的覆盖范围和差距。
该综述的结果将对为粮食不安全人群提供服务的医疗从业者、医疗研究人员以及食品储藏室或食品银行工作人员有用。本范围综述的结果将提交给同行评审期刊发表，作者将与他们合作的食品储藏室和食品银行利益相关者群体分享研究结果。
