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

Pooler, Jennifer; Morgan, Ruth; Wong, Karen K.; Wilkin, Margaret; Blitstein, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2017.04.008

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“…This individual level approach results in participants who are more confident in their ability to prepare healthy meals. While confidence in food preparation did not translate into significant changes in behaviors, the trend was positive and similar to findings from other evaluations of Cooking Matters and FFESMM [ 42 , 43 , 45 ]. Further, while the education component of this program was only six to nine-weeks and the farmers market was only five weeks, the program that was built on a foundation that the community has sufficiently invested for many years.…”

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“…FFCESMH includes a nutrition and physical activity education component, a mobile farmers market, and technical assistance and resources to area faith-based organizations to address the organizational barrier to healthy eating and physical activity. FFCESMH education components combine the practice proven program, Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More (FFESMM), with an evidence based program, Cooking Matters (CM) [ 37 , 38 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ]. FFESMM is comprised of nine nutrition and physical activity lessons that are designed to be facilitated by lay leaders from within faith organizations [ 43 , 44 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…FFESMM is comprised of nine nutrition and physical activity lessons that are designed to be facilitated by lay leaders from within faith organizations [ 43 , 44 ]. Cooking Matters empowers participants with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to make healthy and affordable meals [ 37 , 38 , 42 , 45 ]. Following recommendations from the literature [ 46 , 47 , 48 ], FFESMM and CM curricula were augmented with messaging reinforcing healthy family relationships, social support, and effective parenting styles [ 49 ].…”

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Faithful Families Cooking and Eating Smart and Moving for Health: Evaluation of a Community Driven Intervention

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Griffin

Rolke

et al. 2018

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Background: There is an increasing need to adapt and use community interventions to address modifiable behaviors that lead to poor health outcomes, like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Poor health outcomes can be tied to community-level factors, such as food deserts and individual behaviors, like sedentary lifestyles, consuming large portion sizes, and eating high-calorie fast food and processed foods. Methods: Through a social ecological approach with family, organization and community, the Faithful Families Cooking and Eating Smart and Moving for Health (FFCESMH) intervention was created to address these concerns in a rural South Carolina community. FFCESMH used gatekeepers to identify 18 churches and four apartment complexes in low-income areas; 176 participants completed both pre- and post-survey measures. Results: Paired t-test measures found statistically significant change in participant perception of food security (0.39, p-value = 0.005, d = 0.22), self-efficacy with physical activity and healthy eating (0.26, p-value = 000, d = 0.36), and cooking confidence (0.17, p-value = 0.01, d = 0.19). There was not significant change in cooking behaviors, as assessed through the Cooking Behaviors Scale. Conclusion: FFCESMH shows that a social ecological approach can be effective at increasing and improving individual healthy behaviors and addressing community-level factors in low-income rural communities.

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“…These scales have expanded the number and types of skills considered important for home cooking and have shown that both cooking and food skills are critical for shaping dietary intake [23]. Other measures of cooking confidence and attitudes as well as how people perceive what it means to cook (related to the role of convenience foods vs. scratch ingredients and whether heat is required for cooking) have also been shown to be important predictors of cooking behavior [24][25][26][27].…”

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Food Agency in the United States: Associations with Cooking Behavior and Dietary Intake

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“Food agency” is one’s ability to procure and prepare food within the contexts of one’s social, physical, and economic environment. In 2018, we used Amazon TurkPrime to field two large national surveys in the United States (US) to examine food agency and several food- and cooking-related factors. The first survey (n = 1,457) was fielded in a national sample of US adults. The second survey (n = 1,399) comprised of parents of 2–9-year-old children. Analyses included hierarchical linear regression to examine factors that explained variation in food agency and used Poisson and generalized linear models to examine the association between food agency and between cooking behavior and dietary intake, respectively. Cooking skills; food skills; and cooking confidence, attitudes, and perceptions explained a high degree of food agency variance. Higher food agency was associated with more frequent cooking of all meals, more frequent scratch cooking, and less frequent cooking with packaged ingredients among both adults and parents. Higher food agency was also associated with higher consumption of vegetables among both adults and children. Food agency encompasses a number of the interrelated factors important for home cooking and is a useful construct for understanding and promoting home cooking behavior.

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“…This method of statistical analysis is often used by researchers in various fields, for example, in the field of management, marketing, and business [68][69][70][71][72][73]. The method is also used in research projects focused on the field of education [74][75][76][77]. In cases of the questions in which the respondents could choose more than one answer, the responses were evaluated separately.…”

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The Motivation of Students at Universities as a Prerequisite of the Education’s Sustainability within the Business Value Generation Context

Kucharčíková¹,

Mičiak²,

Malichová³

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The aim of this article is to identify substantial factors affecting the motivation of universities’ students to be actively engaged in the education process and define recommendations for the increase of this motivation. As a result, the sustainability of education at universities will be supported, contributing to the increase of the value of human capital of students and, subsequently, to the generation of value for the stakeholder groups in those enterprises where the graduates will be employed. The research hypothesis is focused on the presence of differences in students’ motivation in relation to their gender, study program, and the year of study. To effectively achieve this aim, the analysis, comparison, and the synthesis of the theoretical background was performed, using available sources of secondary data found in the pieces of domestic and foreign professional literature. The pieces of knowledge obtained were supplemented and combined with pieces of information acquired from the questionnaire survey conducted, focusing on the motivation of students of informatics and management at a university in the Slovak Republic. As tools of statistical analysis, tests of independence suitable for nominal categorical data were applied. It was revealed that young people are motivated to study at a university, specifically at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, mainly by the prospect of better chances in the labor market, the possibility of getting a higher salary, and higher qualification. The motivation to study at a university in order to improve the opportunity of getting employed in the labor market was more frequently perceived by women. Despite the fact that the level of teaching is considered to be high by almost 50% of the students regardless of their gender, study program, or the year of study, their motivation also stems from their expectations related to their future jobs. The students of informatics expect to have a team of friendly colleagues, delightful and stimulating working conditions, and the opportunity to do meaningful work. Among the students of management, meaningful work was replaced by the opportunity for self-fulfillment. When focusing on other factors, the differences based on the gender, study program, or the year of study were not statistically significant. Based on these findings, specific measures for the faculty’s management were proposed.

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

Cited by 70 publications

References 22 publications

Faithful Families Cooking and Eating Smart and Moving for Health: Evaluation of a Community Driven Intervention

Faithful Families Cooking and Eating Smart and Moving for Health: Evaluation of a Community Driven Intervention

Food Agency in the United States: Associations with Cooking Behavior and Dietary Intake

The Motivation of Students at Universities as a Prerequisite of the Education’s Sustainability within the Business Value Generation Context

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