Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine
Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine is a study to pilot test a virtual culinary medicine program with adults with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this study is to see how well synchronous but virtual hands-on healthy cooking classes work to help patients with diabetes improve cooking skills, change eating habits and control diabetes. All materials for this project, including our toolkit and recorded classes are available on the Nourish website.
A pre-post survey design and clinical electronic medical record data (HbA1c, Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, HDL, LDL and Triglycerides) will be used to evaluate patient outcomes.
Objectives
The purpose of this study is to implement 5 90-minute long culinary medicine sessions with patients with diabetes receiving care at Sanitas Medical Center locations in the Houston and Dallas regions.
The overall goals of this project are to:
- To adapt the existing Nourish Program curriculum for synchronous virtual delivery
- To implement adapted virtual CM curriculum among target population
- To assess if program participation improves participant dietary behaviors, nutrition knowledge, and cooking skills and behaviors above standard of care.
- To assess if program participation improves patient levels of HbA1c, Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, HDL, LDL and Triglycerides above standard of care.
- To determine the feasibility and reproducibility of virtual synchronous CM classes.
Status
The NCCM project has completed the pilot study and is in the process of doing analyses and writing publications.
Staff
Natalia Heredia, PhD, MPH
Diana Guevara, MPH, RD, LD
Lorena Macias-Navarro, MS
Sarah Bentley, MPH
Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RDN, LD, CNS, FISBNA
