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Identifying Who Improves or Maintains Their Food Literacy Behaviours after Completing an Adult Program

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  • Andrea Begley

    (School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth 6102, Australia)

  • Ellen Paynter

    (School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth 6102, Australia)

  • Lucy Butcher

    (Foodbank Western Australia, Perth Airport 6105, Australia)

  • Vanessa Bobongie

    (Foodbank Western Australia, Perth Airport 6105, Australia)

  • Satvinder S. Dhaliwal

    (School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth 6102, Australia
    Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, 8 College Rd, Singapore 169857, Singapore)

Abstract

Food Sensations for Adults is a free four-week nutrition and cooking program that teaches low- to middle-income individuals food literacy. This research aimed to compare demographic characteristics of participants who completed the program’s follow-up questionnaire three months after program completion and assess whether food literacy and dietary behaviour changes were improved or maintained. Statistical analysis methods used factor scores of the plan and manage, selection, and preparation domains to examine mean self-reported changes in food literacy. Tertile stratification methods calculated changes in participants who had low, middle, and high end-of-program food literacy scores, and multivariable regression analysis explored the associations. The follow-up results ( n = 621) demonstrated a statistically significant factor score increase in plan and manage (3%) and selection (7.2%) domain scores, and a decrease in the preparation score (3.1%), and serves of consumed vegetables (7.9%), but were still significantly higher than at the start of the program. At follow-up, participants with low food literacy at the program end significantly improved their follow-up domain scores for plan and manage (60%) and selection (73.3%), and participants with moderate or high food literacy at the program end maintained their follow-up scores. A food literacy program can support adults to improve and maintain their food literacy behaviours and maintain dietary behaviour change; therefore, strategies to support this continued change must be considered.

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  • Andrea Begley & Ellen Paynter & Lucy Butcher & Vanessa Bobongie & Satvinder S. Dhaliwal, 2020. "Identifying Who Improves or Maintains Their Food Literacy Behaviours after Completing an Adult Program," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-13, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:12:p:4462-:d:374472
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    1. Ada L. Garcia & Rebecca Reardon & Elizabeth Hammond & Alison Parrett & Anne Gebbie-Diben, 2017. "Evaluation of the “Eat Better Feel Better” Cooking Programme to Tackle Barriers to Healthy Eating," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-18, April.
    2. Andrea Begley & Ellen Paynter & Lucy M. Butcher & Vanessa Bobongie & Satvinder S. Dhaliwal, 2019. "Identifying Participants Who Would Benefit the Most from an Adult Food-literacy Program," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-16, April.
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    1. Raquel Rosas & Filipa Pimenta & Isabel Leal & Ralf Schwarzer, 2022. "FOODLIT-Trial: Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Digital Intervention to Promote Food Literacy and Sustainability Behaviours in Adults Using the Health Action Process Approach and the Behaviour Chan," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(6), pages 1-14, March.
    2. Nikolay I. Didenko & Vladimir A. Davydenko & Elena R. Magaril & Gulnara F. Romashkina & Djamilia F. Skripnuk & Sergei V. Kulik, 2021. "The Nutrition and Health Status of Residents of the Northern Regions of Russia: Outlook of Vertical Agricultural Farms," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(2), pages 1-20, January.
    3. Catherine Dumont & Lucy M. Butcher & Frances Foulkes-Taylor & Anna Bird & Andrea Begley, 2021. "Effectiveness of Foodbank Western Australia’s Food Sensations ® for Adults Food Literacy Program in Regional Australia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(17), pages 1-12, August.

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