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Healthy Choices for Every Body Adult Curriculum Improves Participants' Food Resource Management Skills and Food Safety Practices
- Source :
- Journal of nutrition education and behavior. 50(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- To evaluate the impact of the University of Kentucky's Healthy Choices for Every Body (HCEB) adult nutrition education curriculum on participants' food resource management (FRM) skills and food safety practices.A quasi-experimental design was employed using propensity score matching to pair 8 intervention counties with 8 comparison counties. Independent-samples t tests and ANCOVA models compared gains in FRM skills and food safety practices between the intervention and comparison groups (n = 413 and 113, respectively).Propensity score matching analysis showed a statistical balance and similarities between the comparison and intervention groups. Food resource management and food safety gain scores were statistically significantly higher for the intervention group (P .001), with large effect sizes (d = 0.9) for both variables. The group differences persisted even after controlling for race and age in the ANCOVA models.The HCEB curriculum was effective in improving the FRM skills and food safety practices of participants.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Program evaluation
Gerontology
Adult
Male
Food Safety
Adolescent
Nutritional Sciences
Nutrition Education
education
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Kentucky
01 natural sciences
Skills management
010104 statistics & probability
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Intervention (counseling)
Humans
0101 mathematics
Propensity Score
Curriculum
Poverty
Aged
Analysis of covariance
Analysis of Variance
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Middle Aged
Food safety
Menu Planning
Propensity score matching
Female
business
Psychology
Hand Disinfection
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18782620
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of nutrition education and behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3b359af5016da8ad45060f3cc13fe461