The relationship between food and cooking skills, and eating behaviors in people with overweight or obesity
Authors' conclusion
In people with overweight or obesity, cognitive restraint and emotional eating behaviors improve as their food preparation and cooking skills improve. Therefore, education and public health practices on eating awareness, food skills, and cooking skills can play an important role in bringing healthy behavior change into practice in society.
Study context
- Population
- People with overweight or obesity
- Participants
- 185 people
- Outcome
- Association between food skills and cooking skills and eating behaviors (Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R21)
Methodological detailsface-to-face interview questionnaire, multiple linear regression adjusted for sociodemographic and health-related characteristics
- Face-to-face interview questionnaire
- Multiple linear regression adjusted for sociodemographic and health-related characteristics
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Uncontrolled eating: positive association, β
0.213
p = 0.030
Cognitive restraint: positive association, β
0.245
p = 0.009
Emotional eating: positive association, β
0.338
p = 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Mean scale scores
- Overall Cooking Skills and Food Skills Scale, mean ± SD
- 148.17 ± 52.20
- Cooking skills, mean ± SD
- 70.45 ± 27.48
- Food skills, mean ± SD
- 77.84 ± 28.90
- Uncontrolled eating, mean ± SD
- 43.90 ± 22.74
- Cognitive restraint, mean ± SD
- 36.95 ± 23.93
- Emotional eating, mean ± SD
- 38.94 ± 29.17
Original publication
The relationship between food and cooking skills, and eating behaviors in people with overweight or obesity. Int J Obes (Lond). Published 15 November 2022. doi:10.
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