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Impact of Eat Well…For your Self, For the World text and curriculum on college students’ attitudes and eating habits
Author(s) -
Morris Michelle Neyman,
Rios Letisia,
Bacon Linda,
Clifford Dawn,
Gray Katharine
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.634.2
Subject(s) - curriculum , intervention (counseling) , pleasure , medicine , psychology , demographics , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , gerontology , demography , psychiatry , pedagogy , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , sociology , biology
The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a nutrition text and curriculum on the attitudes and eating habits of community college students in northern California. The nutrition curriculum introduced emphasized the relationships between food choices and personal health, environmental sustainability, and social justice issues. A convenience sample enrolled in an introductory nutrition course between fall 2007 and spring 2009 served as the intervention group (n=448) while students enrolled in a physiology course served as controls (n=134). Intervention participants read Eat Well…For your Self, For the World and completed associated curriculum over the course of a four month semester. All participants completed an on‐line survey assessing demographics, eating attitudes and habits at the beginning (pre) and end (post) of the semester they were enrolled. Participants were primarily single, Asian/Pacific Islander and Caucasian, aged 15 to 58 years. Intervention participants significantly improved their mean Intuitive Eating Scale, Pleasure Subscale, and Health Consciousness Subscale scores (p<0.001), significantly decreased their BMI (p<0.001), and reported positive changes in their shopping and cooking habits and motivators for food choices post intervention compared to controls. Future research should include follow‐up assessment to test for sustainability of these results.