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Evaluation of the Meatless Monday Campaign at Newyork- Presbyterian Fall 2020 EVALUATION OF THE MEATLESS MONDAY CAMPAIGN AT NEWYORK- PRESBYTERIAN 1 CONTENTS Background ..............................................................................................................3 Methods ...................................................................................................................4 Implementation ..................................................................................................................4 Design ................................................................................................................................5 Results .....................................................................................................................6 Discussion ................................................................................................................15 Strengths and Weaknesses ................................................................................................15 Key Takeaways....................................................................................................................16 Appendix A ..............................................................................................................17 NYP Baseline Consumer Screener .....................................................................................17 NYP BASELINE CONSUMER SURVEY .................................................................................18 Appendix B ...............................................................................................................19 NYP FOLLOW-UP CONSUMER SURVEY ..............................................................................19 Appendix C ...............................................................................................................22 Meatless Monday - New York Presbyterian Creative Material as Delivered ....................22 References ...............................................................................................................23 RESEARCH TEAM & CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS: Daphene Altema-Johnson - Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Ron Hernandez – The Monday Campaigns Azure Nowara – Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Columbia University Becky Ramsing – Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Gina Wingood – Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Columbia University 2 BACKGROUND In January 2018, four hospitals in the physicians and over 20,000 employees among NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) network implemented its campuses. As part of their wellness and sus- a health communication campaign to reduce meat tainability initiatives and with the guidance of consumption among hospital employees. NYP TMC, NYP launched Meatless Monday in four of hoped that this campaign could improve employee its seven hospital cafeterias in early 2018. NYP’s health and reduce the institution’s environmental “Meatless Monday” promotion is a partnership footprint. Diets high in red and processed meat, between the Department of Food and Nutrition, especially those low in vegetables, fruits, and NYPBeHealthy, and NYPgreen. It aims to edu- whole grains, are associated with adverse health cate staff, students and community members on outcomes such as some cancers1, heart disease2, how small adjustments in meat consumption can obesity34 and type 2 diabetes5. In addition, live- reduce an individual’s environmental footprint stock production accounts for nearly 15 percent as well as the risk of adverse health outcomes of global greenhouse gas emissions6, making associated with diets high in animal proteins, it a major driver of climate change. Likewise, such as some cancers, heart disease, obesity livestock agriculture uses a disproportionate and type 2 diabetes. The Monday Campaigns amount of the world’s fresh water, arable land enlisted the consultation of the Lerner Center for and fossil fuel.7 The increasing global demand Public Health Promotion at Columbia University’s for meat drives the livestock sector furthering Mailman School of Public Health and the Johns intensive animal confinement and misuse of Hopkins Center for a Livable Future to design, antibiotics, thus contributing to the growing implement, and evaluate the influence of the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance and Meatless Monday campaign at NYP. animal-to-human spread of diseases.8 The Meatless Monday at NYP intervention used Reducing the amount of meat we consume glob- the socio-ecological framework to influence ally is necessary, but a large-scale shift toward both personal and environmental factors that the consumption of plant-based proteins will determine individual behaviors. The proposed require multiple approaches. Within the food intervention was designed to have an impact service industry, one approach is to reduce por- on multiple levels (community, organizational, tions of meat and incorporate more plant-based interpersonal and individual levels) providing a proteins into menus at schools, hospitals, work comprehensive network of intervention compo- sites and restaurants. For organizations who nents to reduce employee meat consumption on haven’t yet made the commitment to reducing Mondays. All components of the intervention meat consumption, one strategic approach is to (figure 2) were implemented within the New introduce a meat reduction, plant-based initiative York Presbyterian dining cafeterias or through like Meatless Monday. New York Presbyterian’s digital resources. While NewYork-Presbyterian has six main facilities, only Meatless Monday is a global movement with a the four facilities with NYP retail operations were simple message: one day a week, cut out meat. included in this study. These were selected be- Launched in 2003, Meatless Monday is a non-profit cause of their higher level of engagement and initiative of The Monday Campaigns (TMC). Their patronage by NYP staff. goal is to reduce public meat consumption in ▶ NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospi- the United States by 15% for personal health tal (NYP/AH) and the health of the planet. Meatless Mon- ▶ NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Uni- day provides information, news, recipes and versity Irving Medical Center (NYP/CU) free promotional materials to help individuals, ▶ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill schools, restaurants, hospitals, food companies Cornell Medical Center (NYP/WC) and entire communities start each week with a ▶ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/West- commitment to eating healthy, environmentally chester Division (NYP/WD) friendly, meat-free meals. The Meatless Monday intervention components NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) is an academic med- according to their socio-ecological levels are ical center with seven campuses in the New York highlighted in figure 2. Metropolitan area. It houses more than 6,500 3 METHODS Implementation NewYork-Presbyterian’s Meatless Monday Inter- vention was initiated in February 2018 after the administration of the baseline survey two weeks prior. Outreach and promotion regarding the ini- tiative was made on a weekly basis every Monday throughout the campaign. The communication efforts were intended to educate employees on how small adjustments in meat consumption can reduce an individual’s environmental footprint as well as the risk of adverse health outcomes associated with high-meat diets. Figure 1 The program also encourages participation in Meatless Monday by promoting a vegetarian pork, poultry, fish, or shellfish, but may contain entrée as the daily featured special. This special dairy or eggs. meets the NYPBeHealthy nutritional guidelines and is offered for a one dollar discount. Meat Each week, a fact explaining the benefits of eating options are still available in the cafeterias on meatless is displayed via a creative graphic that Mondays. For the purpose of the program, the was developed and verified by The Monday Cam- meatless meal is defined as a meal containing paigns (see figure 1), Johns Hopkins Center for a grains, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables. Livable Future, and the NewYork-Presbyterian Food A meatless meal does not include red meat (beef), & Nutrition team. These materials are intended Figure 2 4 to educate staff and encourage participation in To address the research questions of interest, the the Meatless Monday initiative. Statistics demon- NYP data collection team (NYP Dietetic Interns, strating the potential impact of all NYP staff Nutrition Fellows and Health and NYP Wellbeing participating in Meatless Monday were generated staff trained by Columbia University researchers via NewYork-Presbyterian’s partnership with the from the Mailman School of Public Health, Lerner Monday Campaigns and The Johns Hopkins Center Center for Public Health Promotion) conduct- for a Livable Future. Citations for all claims can ed a multi-site, pretest and posttest consumer be accessed via NewYork-Presbyterian’s Food survey evaluation for all quantitative endpoints & Nutrition Website. (responses to research questions). The intention was to capture data at multiple time points of Design the initiative (baseline, and six months post- The primary research objective of this project launch) in order to evaluate behavior change and was to evaluate the influence of the Meatless sustainability. Data were recorded on tablets via Monday campaign after six months of implemen- the electronic Qualtrics software. All data were tation in four NYP hospital cafeterias, measuring managed and analyzed by the Johns Hopkins self-reported awareness and reduction of meat Center
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