Outcomes of Cooking Matters for Diabetes: A 6-week Randomized, Controlled Cooking and Diabetes Self-Management Education Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes self-management education and support is the cornerstone of diabetes care, yet only 1 in 2 adults with diabetes attain hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) targets. Food insecurity makes diabetes management and HbA1c control more difficult.

Objective

Our aim was to test whether a cooking intervention with food provision and diabetes self-management education and support improves HbA1c and diabetes management.

Design

This was a waitlist-controlled, randomized trial.

Participants/setting

Participants were 48 adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Intervention

Cooking Matters for Diabetes was adapted from Cooking Matters and the American Diabetes Association diabetes self-management education and support intervention into a 6-week program with weekly

SUBMITTER: Williams A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10862535 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature