Interventions in Nutrition Education and Skills
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Sponsor
- Frances Hardin-Fanning, PhD, RN
- Enrollment
- 188
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in BLOCK Fruit/Vegetable/Fiber Screener From Baseline at 12 Months
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Healthy eating can be difficult for people who live in poor, geographically isolated regions of the United States. In particular, people who live in Appalachia often experience food insecurity (i.e., their access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year) and lack of access to healthy foods. This pilot study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational interviewing in helping individuals who live in these austere regions improve their diets in the context of limited resources and healthy food availability
Detailed Description
Participants in three of the counties will receive an education/skills intervention paired with a form of coaching called motivational interviewing (MI) conducted by a trained registered nurse. Three similar counties that do not border any of the intervention counties are serving as controls (these counties receive the same nutrition education/skills intervention without motivational interviewing). All participants will receive cookbooks, cooking classes, food preparation tools, and prepared food dishes to take home to their families. The investigators will measure the impact of motivational interviewing on fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, saturated fat consumption and number of meals cooked at home.
Investigators
Frances Hardin-Fanning, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •People who live in one of six rural Kentucky food desert counties
Exclusion Criteria
- •\<16 years old
- •Unable to read/write English
- •Any GI malabsorption disorder that prevents high fiber consumption
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in BLOCK Fruit/Vegetable/Fiber Screener From Baseline at 12 Months
Time Frame: Baseline, 12 months
Block Fruit/Vegetable/Fiber Screener is a tool that ranks usual intake of fruit, vegetables, and fiber. Total fruit/vegetable/fiber score can range from 0-50 with higher numbers reflecting greater frequency of fruit, vegetable and fiber consumption.
Secondary Outcomes
- Average Saturated Fatty Acid Intake/Day(Baseline, 12 months)
- Frequency of Fast Food Consumption(Baseline and 12 months)