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Final Interview Schedule Getting food in low-income neighborhoods

Participant ID:

Date:

Time:

Location:

Materials checklist

____ Three print outs of activity space for the study period with convex hull boundaries (1 for them to

keep if they’d like and 1 backup)

____ Food source tally form and info sheets

____ 4-5 Food source info sheets

____ Print out of store diary data from form if applicable

____ Voice recorder

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Section I: Materials check-in

Get phone and power cord. Verify that the phone is still operational

Collect food diary forms (including any extras) and verify that all needed information is there

Verify it’s OK if we record this conversation.

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Section II: Review activity space

Show map of activity space buffered convex hull over this time. Make sure people understand

where the boundaries of this space are—note landmarks or major streets and kernel density

information.

Question 1: How well does this space match up with what you would consider your

neighborhood—the places where you spend most of your time? How would you draw that

space?

Have them draw on the printout and talk about what the main boundaries are.

Question 2: Which places in this area do you visit most often? What do you do there?

Mark and label these places on the map as they talk about them.

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Section III: Review food diary

Tally places visited most/least often. Starting with most visited location, ask questiond 3-8 for

each site, using photos of the place as prompts.

***Be sure receipts match up with sites and clarify types of food gotten if too general***

Question 3: Describe this [store/place] to me. What kind of food can you find there, and

what do you get?

Question 6: Why do you go to this store/place? What do you most enjoyable/useful or

stressful/difficult about getting your food there?

[Ask participants to particularly develop any responses around values that they base food

shopping decisions on & strategies for maximizing value per dollar or quality of food items—why

are those strategies important?

Question 4: Did anyone go with you to this store/place? If so, who and why

Question 5: Were you getting food for anyone besides you at this store/place? If so, who?

Question 7: How do you usually get to and from this store/place? Do you combine trips to

this store/place with other trips you make throughout the day? If so, which ones? [Review

food tracking data if needed]

[After going over all stores listed] Question 8: Does this list of stores match up with the places

you usually shop? Are there any other stores that you would add to this list? [If so, do

questions 3-7] for that store on a blank food diary form.

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Section IV: Larger evaluation and wrap-up

Question 9: There are some types of stores you did not visit during this week. Are you

aware of them? Is there any particular reason you don’t use them?

Categories of stores to cover:

Medium sized groceries

Big box

Supermarkets

Ethnic markets

Farmers markets/co-ops/gardens

Corner stores

Food shelves

Question 10 [If applicable]: How would you compare your food shopping habits with those

of other people in your household, including both children and adults?

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Question 12: Imagine you had the power to change the food options [food stores/sources]

available in your neighborhood. What would you change? This could mean changing the

stores themselves, changing the foods those stores have available, and/or changing the way

those foods are produced. What kind of difference would this make to your everyday life?

Question 13: Is there anything else you learned from doing this study about yourself or

about the food options available to you that you’d like to share?

Thank them for their time and provide gift card. Remind them that they will be contacted about

the focus group at the completion of the study where preliminary results will be shown and they

can provide input.

Wrap up: Be sure to save neighborhood space and significant places to the subjects’ folder and

transfer them back to the project data folder.