Serving Up FLAN. A Food Literacy and Nutrition Intervention to Fend Off Food Insecurity.

Autor:	Royer MF; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine., Hauser ME; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine., Zamora AN; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine., Campero MI; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine., Garcia D; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine., Gabaray M; Stanford Medicine Children's Health, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford., Sheats JL; Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine., King AC; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Research square [Res Sq] 2024 May 07. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 07.
DOI:	10.21203/rs.3.rs-4331290/v1
Abstrakt:	Background: Food insecurity, an ongoing and accelerating problem in the U.S., is an economic and social condition involving limited or uncertain access to adequate food. Some of the highest rates of food insecurity in 2022 were found among individuals who were Hispanic-Latinx (20.8%), a population that already faces disproportionate health and socioeconomic disadvantages. There remains an urgent health-related need to identify sustainable strategies to prevent food insecurity in the Latinx population. Methods: A first-generation pilot investigation was conducted using data derived from a sub-study connected to the Computerized Physical Activity Support for Seniors (COMPASS) Trial, a 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial among older Latinx adults. The sub-study focused on two nutrition interventions that included 1) the Food Literacy and Nutrition (FLAN) curriculum, and 2) a nutrition information-only control. Research hypotheses aimed to determine whether the FLAN intervention reduced food insecurity and increased daily fruit and vegetable servings. Results: On average, participants (n = 39) were 61.5 years of age (SD = 6.7), mostly female (69%), and reported Spanish as their primary language (69%). The FLAN intervention was associated with decreased odds of food insecurity at 12 months (AOR = 0.71, 95% CI = 0.54, 0.95; p = 0.03) when compared to the nutrition-information only control intervention. Although no between-group differences in daily fruit and vegetable servings were found, there was a significant correlation between changes in daily fruit and vegetable servings from baseline to six months and changes in food insecurity from baseline to 12 months (r = -0.51, p = 0.01). Conclusions: The FLAN intervention, a bilingual and culturally tailored educational curriculum, yielded 12-month improvements in food security among a small sample of older Latinx adults. Evidence from this investigation suggests the potential utility of implementing the FLAN curriculum among individuals who are at an increased risk of food insecurity. Further investigation in a larger sample is merited to determine whether the 12-month decreases in food insecurity that were produced by the FLAN intervention can be replicated. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02111213. Competing Interests: Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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