TY - JOUR
T1 - Good Grubbin'
T2 - Impact of a TV Cooking Show for College Students Living Off Campus
AU - Clifford, Dawn
AU - Anderson, Jennifer
AU - Auld, Garry
AU - Champ, Joseph
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted at Colorado State University, where Dawn Clifford completed her PhD. This research was funded by Colorado State University Associated Students and the Poudre Valley Hospital Foundation's Coalition for Activity and Nutrition to Defeat Obesity (CanDO).
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - Objective: To determine if a series of 4 15-minute, theory-driven (Social Cognitive Theory) cooking programs aimed at college students living off campus improved cooking self-efficacy, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding fruit and vegetable intake. Design: A randomized controlled trial with pre-, post- and follow-up tests. Setting: University campus. Participants: Students (n = 101) from upper-level nonhealth courses (n = 37 male and n = 94 living off campus). Intervention: The intervention group (n = 50) watched 4 weekly episodes of the cooking show, Good Grubbin'. The control group (n = 51) watched 4 weekly episodes on sleep disorders. Main Outcome Measures: Demographic information; knowledge, self-efficacy, motivations, barriers of eating fruits and vegetables; self-efficacy, motivations, barriers and behaviors of cooking; fruit and vegetable intake food frequency questionnaire. Analysis: Repeated-measure analysis of variance and chi-square analyses were used to compare outcome variables. Results: There were significant improvements in knowledge of fruit and vegetable recommendations in the intervention group compared to the control group postintervention and at 4-month follow-up (P < .05). There were no significant changes in fruit and vegetable motivators, barriers, self-efficacy or intake. Conclusions and Implications: A television show on nutrition and cooking may be influential in changing students' knowledge, but it seems to have little impact on dietary behaviors. With a recent increase in popularity of cooking shows, future research should investigate the impact an extended cooking and nutrition show series might have on young adult viewers.
AB - Objective: To determine if a series of 4 15-minute, theory-driven (Social Cognitive Theory) cooking programs aimed at college students living off campus improved cooking self-efficacy, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding fruit and vegetable intake. Design: A randomized controlled trial with pre-, post- and follow-up tests. Setting: University campus. Participants: Students (n = 101) from upper-level nonhealth courses (n = 37 male and n = 94 living off campus). Intervention: The intervention group (n = 50) watched 4 weekly episodes of the cooking show, Good Grubbin'. The control group (n = 51) watched 4 weekly episodes on sleep disorders. Main Outcome Measures: Demographic information; knowledge, self-efficacy, motivations, barriers of eating fruits and vegetables; self-efficacy, motivations, barriers and behaviors of cooking; fruit and vegetable intake food frequency questionnaire. Analysis: Repeated-measure analysis of variance and chi-square analyses were used to compare outcome variables. Results: There were significant improvements in knowledge of fruit and vegetable recommendations in the intervention group compared to the control group postintervention and at 4-month follow-up (P < .05). There were no significant changes in fruit and vegetable motivators, barriers, self-efficacy or intake. Conclusions and Implications: A television show on nutrition and cooking may be influential in changing students' knowledge, but it seems to have little impact on dietary behaviors. With a recent increase in popularity of cooking shows, future research should investigate the impact an extended cooking and nutrition show series might have on young adult viewers.
KW - mass media
KW - nutrition
KW - students
KW - television
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneb.2008.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jneb.2008.01.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 19411053
AN - SCOPUS:65449164233
SN - 1499-4046
VL - 41
SP - 194
EP - 200
JO - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
JF - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
IS - 3
ER -