Table 4.
Food literacy and dietary behaviours differences at baseline.
| Metropolitan Pre-Program |
Regional Pre-Program | p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Responsibility for meals | n = 1185 | n = 418 | 0.126 |
| All the time | 682 (57.6%) | 260 (62.2%) | |
| Shared | 412 (34.8%) | 136 (32.5%) | |
| No | 91 (7.7%) | 22 (5.3%) | |
| Responsibility for shopping | n = 1185 | n = 414 | 0.020 |
| All the time | 640 (54.0%) | 252 (60.9%) | |
| Shared | 440 (37.1%) | 139 (33.6%) | |
| No | 105 (8.9%) | 23 (5.6%) | |
| Cooking skills rating | n = 1188 | n = 417 | 0.001 |
| Can cook almost anything | 282 (23.7%) | 122 (29.3%) | |
| Can cook a wide variety of meals | 496 (41.8%) | 191 (45.8%) | |
| Can cook basic meat and 3 vegetables | 296 (24.9%) | 82 (19.7%) | |
| Can do basic heating food, use barbeque, boil egg | 76 (6.6%) | 10 (2.4%) | |
| Cannot cook or do not cook | 35 (2.9%) | 12 (2.9%) | |
| Healthy foods cost more | n = 1180 | n = 411 | 0.010 |
| Strongly disagree | 91 (7.7%) | 19 (4.6%) | |
| Disagree | 330 (28.0%) | 91 (22.1%) | |
| Not sure | 239 (20.3%) | 87 (21.2%) | |
| Agree | 375 (31.8%) | 161 (39.2%) | |
| Strongly agree | 145 (12.3%) | 53 (12.9%) | |
| Run out of money for food in the past month | (n = 1154) | (n = 406) | 0.267 |
| Never | 705 (61.1%) | 236 (58.1%) | |
| Sometimes | 352 (30.5% | 138 (33.9%) | |
| Most of the time | 55 (4.7%) | 23 (5.6%) | |
| Always | 42 (3.6%) | 9 (2.2%) |