Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Nutrition Curriculum for Women With Children Living in Transitional Housing

IF 2.9 3区医学 Q3 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1111/jhn.70015

Austin Milton, Natalie Frech, Anna Shadid, Nicholas Hollman, Sarah Beth Bell, Marianna S. Wetherill

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Abstract

Objective

This study describes the implementation of a 6-week nutrition and culinary education curriculum at a transitional housing facility for single mothers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

Methods

Using a novel, trauma-informed approach to nutrition education, we delivered the Around the Table: Nourishing Families curriculum across three, small group cohorts (n = 15) over a period of 2 years. Lessons emphasized small group dialogue and group-directed learning on the topics of toxic stress, food as nourishment and family resilience combined with hands-on recipe preparation by the group. We evaluated process measures of participation and attrition and outcome measures of self-reported food skills, dietary intake, emotional well-being, and other indicators of nutrition self-care using a pre–post design.

Results

Food skills significantly improved post-curriculum (p = 0.026) with additional improvement in several areas of dietary intake, mindful eating, nutrition self-care and greater use of healthy foods at family mealtimes.

Conclusions

Hands-on, participatory nutrition and cooking education that emphasizes mind–body connections to food can be a feasible strategy for teaching introductory food skills and may also support socioemotional healing in this population.

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Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 医学-营养学

CiteScore

5.30

自引率

15.20%

发文量

133

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing papers in applied nutrition and dietetics. Papers are therefore welcomed on: - Clinical nutrition and the practice of therapeutic dietetics - Clinical and professional guidelines - Public health nutrition and nutritional epidemiology - Dietary surveys and dietary assessment methodology - Health promotion and intervention studies and their effectiveness - Obesity, weight control and body composition - Research on psychological determinants of healthy and unhealthy eating behaviour. Focus can for example be on attitudes, brain correlates of food reward processing, social influences, impulsivity, cognitive control, cognitive processes, dieting, psychological treatments. - Appetite, Food intake and nutritional status - Nutrigenomics and molecular nutrition - The journal does not publish animal research The journal is published in an online-only format. No printed issue of this title will be produced but authors will still be able to order offprints of their own articles.