Table 3.
Self-Efficacya for buying, eating and preparing fruits and vegetables self-reported on the baseline survey by 201 adults participating in a randomized mobile market intervention.
| How easy or hard would it before you to… (1 is very easy, 10 is very hard) |
Mean (SD)b |
|---|---|
| Buy more fruits and vegetables than you normally do the next time you shop? | 3.9 (2.9) |
| Use all of the fruits and vegetables that you buy before they go bad? | 3.9 (2.7) |
| Work more fruits and vegetables than you normally do into meals for yourself and your family? | 3.6 (2.6) |
| Work more fruits and vegetables than you normally do into snacks for yourself and your family? | 3.8 (2.8) |
| Cook vegetables in a way that is appealing to your family? | 3.5 (2.7) |
| Make-up a vegetable dish with what you have on hand? | 3.7 (2.8) |
| Try vegetables that you have not eaten before? | 5.0 (3.2) |
| Prepare and cook new recipes | 3.8 (2.9) |
a
Self-efficacy questions adapted from a Social-Cognitive Model of Nutrition Behavior.41
b
SD= standard deviation; accounting for clustering by site.