Barriers, facilitators, and opportunities to promote healthy weight behaviors among preschool-aged children in two rural U.S communities

Table 2 Results from the assessment of food outlets in the rural Indiana community using CX³ tool^a

	Indiana Community
	(n = 19 food outlets)
	n (%)
Type of food outlet
Supermarket	3 (16)
Convenience store	10 (53)
Small market	6 (32)
Variety of fresh fruits in store
None or limited variety	11 (58)
Moderate or wide variety	8 (42)
Variety of fresh vegetables in store
None or limited variety	12 (63)
Moderate or wide variety	7 (37)
Quality of fresh fruit in store
No fresh fruit or poor quality	13 (68)
Mostly good or all good quality	6 (32)
Quality of fresh vegetables in store
No fresh vegetables or poor quality	11 (58)
Mostly good or all good quality	8 (42)
Accepts Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
Yes	14 (74)
No	5 (26)
Accepts Women, Infants and Children’s (WIC) program benefits
Yes	4 (21)
No	15 (79)
Availability of other healthy food items (e.g., whole wheat bread, skim milk, brown rice, frozen vegetables)^b (median, IQR)	7 (6)
Total food environment score on the CX³ tool^c(median, IQR)	18 (43)

Abbreviations: IQR represents interquartile range
^aFood environment audits were restricted to IN because a similar assessment was performed in the NC community by the Health Department in the NC community
^bPossible range of scores = 0–10; scores greater than 8 meet health recommendations
^cTotal scores on the CX³ tool could range from 0–77, with higher scores representing higher-quality food environments

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