Food Agency in the United States: Associations with Cooking Behavior and Dietary Intake.

ABSTRACT: "Food agency" is one's ability to procure and prepare food within the contexts of one's social, physical, and economic environment. In 2018, we used Amazon TurkPrime to field two large national surveys in the United States (US) to examine food agency and several food- and cooking-related factors. The first survey (n = 1,457) was fielded in a national sample of US adults. The second survey (n = 1,399) comprised of parents of 2-9-year-old children. Analyses included hierarchical linear regression to examine factors that explained variation in food agency and used Poisson and generalized linear models to examine the association between food agency and between cooking behavior and dietary intake, respectively. Cooking skills; food skills; and cooking confidence, attitudes, and perceptions expl

SUBMITTER: Wolfson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7146410 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature