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  • Obesity Prevention
  • Program Evaluation
  • Child and Adult Health Behaviors

Background:

  • The iCook 4-H curriculum aims to prevent obesity by promoting healthy cooking, eating, and playing habits.
  • Developing valid and reliable evaluation instruments is crucial for assessing program effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate program outcome evaluation instruments for the iCook 4-H curriculum.
  • To assess the reliability and validity of instruments measuring cooking, eating, and physical activity in youth and adults.

Main Methods:

  • Instrument development and pre-post testing for youth and adults.
  • Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, reliability (Cronbach α, coefficient Ω, test-retest), and validity (Pearson r) testing.
  • A 5-state out-of-school program involving 214 youth-adult dyads in phase 1 and 74 in phase 2.

Main Results:

  • Instruments for youth cooking skills, openness to new foods, and adult cooking/eating together demonstrated strong reliability and validity.
  • Measures for physical activity showed good dimensionality and validity but lacked reliability.
  • Youth culinary self-efficacy measures had good reliability and validity but weaker dimensionality.

Conclusions:

  • Validated evaluation instruments are available for the iCook 4-H curriculum.
  • These instruments will enable consistent monitoring and reporting of program outcomes by leaders and stakeholders.
  • The findings support the use of these tools for assessing obesity prevention program effectiveness.