Fourth-Grade Cooking and Physical Activity Intervention Reveals Associations With Cooking Experience and Sex.

Cunningham-Sabo, Leslie; Lohse, Barbara; Nigg, Claudio R; Parody, Robert J (2023). Fourth-Grade Cooking and Physical Activity Intervention Reveals Associations With Cooking Experience and Sex. Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 55(3), pp. 191-204. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jneb.2022.10.008

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OBJECTIVE

Examine the impact of Fuel for Fun: Cooking with Kids Plus Parents and Play (FFF) on children's culinary self-efficacy, attitude, fruit and vegetable (FV) preferences, physical activity (PA), and body mass index.

DESIGN

Randomized controlled trial.

SETTING

Eight elementary schools in 2 Northern Colorado districts.

PARTICIPANTS

Fourth-grade students; 7-month interventions: school (S.FFF)-theory-based cooking + tasting lessons, active recess, lesson-driven cafeteria promotions; or school + family (S+F.FFF) with added family nights and home activities.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S)

Cooking self-efficacy and attitudes, FV preferences, PA, and measured height/weight.

ANALYSIS

Individual outcomes nested by classroom, school, and district and assessed > 12 months with repeated measures controlled by sex and baseline cooking experience, with a significance level of P < 0.05.

RESULTS

The sample included 1,428 youth, 38 teachers, 4 cohorts, 50% boys, 75% White, and 15% Hispanic. No intervention effect was observed. Those who cooked retained higher self-efficacy, attitude, and FV preferences (P < 0.001). Girls reported higher self-efficacy and attitude than boys. Moderate-to-vigorous PA and metabolic equivalent minutes increased for all students; boys retained higher levels (P < 0.001). Body mass index percentile remained stable.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Cooking and sex were associated with all outcome measures and should be considered for intervention tailoring. Treatment impacts were not evident nesting by classroom, school, and district. Accurate assessment of school-based interventions requires rejecting student independence from group assignment assumptions.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW)

UniBE Contributor:

Nigg, Claudio Renato

ISSN:

1878-2620

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

30 Jan 2023 15:03

Last Modified:

11 Mar 2023 00:14

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.jneb.2022.10.008

PubMed ID:

36707323

Uncontrolled Keywords:

children cooking nested analysis physical activity school

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/178043

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178043

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