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Martha Archuleta1, Dawn Vanleeuwen, Karen Halderson
1Regional Campuses and Distance Education, Utah State University, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. martha.archuleta@usu.edu
Objective:
To determine whether cooking classes offered by the Cooperative Extension Service improved nutrient intake patterns in people with type 2 diabetes.
Design:
Quasi-experimental using pretest, posttest comparisons.
Setting:
Community locations including schools, churches, and senior centers.
Participants:
One hundred seventeen people with type 2 diabetes, from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Intervention:
Series of classes for people with type 2 diabetes and their family members that incorporated Social Cognitive Theory tenets. The classes featured current nutrition recommendations for people with type 2 diabetes and hands-on cooking, where participants prepared and ate a meal together.
Main Outcome Measures:
Three-day food records, completed prior to attending cooking schools and 1 month after, were used to measure changes in energy intake and selected nutrients.
Analysis:
Program efficacy was assessed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to compare differences between pre-training and post-training variables. ANCOVA was used to determine whether program efficacy was affected by sociodemographics.
Results:
Participants decreased (P < .05) intakes of energy, fat grams, percentage of calories from fat, saturated fat grams, cholesterol (mg), sodium (mg), and carbohydrate grams.
Conclusions And Implications:
Nutrition education incorporating hands-on cooking can improve nutrient intake in people with type 2 diabetes from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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