Incorporating Technology Into the iCook 4-H Program, a Cooking Intervention for Adults and Children: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Families who cook, eat, and play together have been found to have more positive health outcomes. Interventions are needed that effectively increase these health-related behaviors. Technology is often incorporated in health-related interventions but is not always independently assessed.

Objective

The objective of this study was to describe challenges and facilitators to incorporating technology into the iCook 4-H intervention program.

Methods

Dyads (n=228) composed of children (mean 9.4, SD 0.7 years old) and an adult primary meal preparer (mean 39.0, SD 8 years) were randomly assigned to a control (n=77) or treatment group (n=151). All treatment group dyads participated in 6 in-person sessions designed to increase families cooking, eating, and playing toget

SUBMITTER: Colby S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6744819 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature