Cooking Matters for Adults Improves Food Resource Management Skills and Self-confidence Among Low-Income Participants

Determine the impact of Cooking Matters for Adults (CM) on food resource management (FRM) skills and self-confidence 6 months after course completion. Quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent comparison group and 6-month follow-up. Cooking Matters for Adults programs in CA, CO, ME, MA, MI, and O...

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Published in:Journal of nutrition education and behavior 2017-07, Vol.49 (7), p.545-553.e1
Main Authors: Pooler, Jennifer A., Morgan, Ruth E., Wong, Karen, Wilkin, Margaret K., Blitstein, Jonathan L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Consumer Behavior
Cooking
Family Characteristics
Female
Follow-Up Studies
food resource management
Group Processes
Health Education
Healthy Diet - economics
Humans
low-income population
Male
Middle Aged
nutrition education
Nutritional Sciences - education
Poverty
Self Concept
Stress, Psychological - prevention & control
United States
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Summary:Determine the impact of Cooking Matters for Adults (CM) on food resource management (FRM) skills and self-confidence 6 months after course completion. Quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent comparison group and 6-month follow-up. Cooking Matters for Adults programs in CA, CO, ME, MA, MI, and OR. Participants in CM attending classes in April to July, 2016 (n = 332); comparison group (n = 336). Cooking Matters for Adults educated low-income adults to shop for and prepare healthy meals economically using hands-on meal preparation, facilitated discussion, and an interactive grocery store tour. Classes met for 2 hours, once a week for 6 weeks. Food resource management practices; FRM self-confidence (ie, in shopping for and preparing healthy foods on a budget); worrying that food might run out. Pearson's chi-square test and t tests identified measures associated with outcomes of interest and between-group differences. Repeated-measures linear mixed models with fixed and random effects were used to examine differences in outcomes between participants in CM and nonequivalent comparison group and to estimate the treatment effect of the program at 3 and 6 months after course completion. Six months after course completion, CM participants demonstrated improvements in all outcome measures of interest: Use of FRM practices improved (P = .002) as did FRM confidence (P 
ISSN:1499-4046
1878-2620
DOI:10.1016/j.jneb.2017.04.008