Feasibility of a dietary life skills course aimed at fostering cooking skills and a healthy diet among university students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The transition from living at home to independent university life has been associated with deteriorated health outcomes, and many university students lack cooking skills. Life skills education promotes skills essential to mastering everyday challenges such as planning and preparing healthy meals. We developed a dietary life skills course to foster cooking skills and a healthy diet among university students. This paper describes the feasibility testing of this Skills for Life course.

Methods

Skills for Life was feasibility tested as a pre-post intervention without a control group. The course comprised 10 weekly, practical lessons at a university teaching kitchen. Topics included among others: nutrition from a life course perspective and why diet matters, how to sto

SUBMITTER: Valand IU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273360 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature