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. 2019 Jun 27;24(1):1630238. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2019.1630238

Table 1.

Pre-course and post-course survey measuring students’ confidence, nutrition knowledge, and food identification skills.

  Year
2016a
2017b
2018b
  Students (n) 15 16 16
Confidence Pre-Course Median 2.5 2.19 2.38
Post-Course Median 3.33 2.88 2.69
z value −3.42 −3.54 −3.42
p valued 0.001 <.001 0.001
r −0.62 −0.63 −0.60
Nutrition Knowledge Scorec Pre-Course Median 57.69 62.5 50
Post-Course Median 69.23 78.13 62.50
z value −2.741 −3.09 −2.744
p value 0.006 0.002 0.006
r −0.49 −0.55 −0.49
Food Identificationc Pre-Course Median 75 55 68.75
Post-Course Median 70.00 72.5 75.00
z value −0.035 −3.186 −2.202
p value 0.972 0.001 0.028
r −0.006 −0.56 −0.40

aStudent confidence recorded on 0–4 Scale; survey available in appendix 1

bStudent confidence recorded on 0–3 Scale; survey available in appendix II

cBoth Nutrition Knowledge and Food Identification on a scale from 0–100

dP Value <0.005 considered statistically significant