Food eTalk

Developer

University of Georgia

Year

2016

Part of the SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions Toolkit.* Food eTalk is direct education intervention designed to increase participant’s daily intake of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat dairy products; decrease daily intake of sodium; improve food resource management, food safety practices, and physical activity. The 6 interactive eLearning modules are self-paced and the mobile-nature of many Internet accessing devices (i.e., smartphones) encourages learning at the point-of-decision making, such as engaging in quick Food eTalk video-based lessons in a supermarket or restaurant.

Website

Food eTalk - University of GA

leejs@uga.edu

Funding Source

University of Georgia Extension

Free Material

SNAP-Ed Toolkit Classification

Research-tested

Evaluation Information

Evaluation materials include participant online pre-test/post-test surveys and 9 post-module surveys, which include measures adopted from nationally representative surveys and validated measures recommended by the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework. These surveys are embedded within the eLearning lessons and available for use. Data sharing agreements can be established with UGA SNAP-Ed for additional institutions/organizations who wish to use Food eTalk and the data collected by the existing evaluation surveys.

Research Articles

E-Learning Nutrition Education Program for Low-Income Adults: Perspectives of Key Stakeholders

The Feasibility of an eLearning Nutrition Education Program for Low-Income Individuals

Development of an Online Smartphone-Based eLearning Nutrition Education Program for Low-Income Individuals

A mixed-methods evaluation using low-income adult Georgians’ experience with a smartphone-based eLearning nutrition education programme

Evaluation Framework Indicators

Audience

Pregnant/Breastfeeding

Setting

Format

SNAP-Ed Toolkit Interventions

State

Georgia

Language

English

Spanish

SNAP-Ed Connection Comments

*SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions: An Obesity Prevention Toolkit for States is a compilation of interventions. The toolkit was developed by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, The Association of SNAP-Ed Nutrition Education Administrators (ASNNA), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Training and Research Translation (Center TRT), and the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the USDA. It is designed and updated to help state SNAP-Ed administrative and implementing agencies identify evidence-based obesity prevention programs and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) strategies and interventions to include in their SNAP-Ed plans.