Community Assessment for a Low-Carbohydrate Nutrition Education Program in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Eat Better South Africa (EBSA) is an organization that provides low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) nutrition and health education programs for women from under-resourced South African communities. Community assessments are essential to explore participants' potential facilitators and challenges of adhering to new dietary behaviours and should be implemented before any dietary interventions. This study is a qualitative community assessment to enable the EBSA program to better meet potential participants' needs and explore their willingness to enrol in the EBSA program. Sixty women from two communities in the Western Cape were interviewed through six focus group discussions. A thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo 12 software, and four themes were developed around the women's (1) role w

SUBMITTER: Pujol-Busquets G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9824893 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature