Meal Preparation and Cooking Group Participation in Mental Health: A Community Transition

Garcia, Alison; Privott, Christine

doi:10.18848/2160-1933/cgp/v13i02/85-101

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“…There are also a number of sage social isolation remedy messages to entice readers. In a recent study, cooking was linked with improved mood and sense of belonging and family (Garcia & Privott, 2023).…”

Section: Public Health Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Content Analysis of Perceived Social Isolation Remedies Shared in a National E-Survey (Preprint)

Low,

von Humboldt,

Gloria

et al. 2024

Preprint

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BACKGROUND Older people are experts on what a quality social life looks like while living most at risk for COVID-19-related health harms. Older Canadians have helped raise awareness of the physical and mental detriments of social isolation. Remedial initiatives that build on older people’s lived experiences are also important initiatives. OBJECTIVE When public health restrictions were lifted in the Summer of 2022, we aimed to collect evidence grounded in older people’s everyday lived experiences about transitioning into open spaces while COVID-19 still lingered. METHODS This study was part of a larger e-survey project about mentally healthy living among 1,327 community-dwelling persons 60+ years of age. A sample stratified by age, sex, and education to approximate the Canadian population was asked: With COVID-19 public health measures lifting, based on your own experience, what would you suggest other older Canadians do to reduce social isolation? They responded as they saw fit. RESULTS Content analysis of 1,189 open-text messages revealed four calls to action: 1) Cultivating community; 2) Making room for what’s good; 3) Don’t let your guard down; and 4) Voiced out challenges. All four remedies were similarly endorsed, regardless of messengers’ age, sex, gender identity, and perceived health. Making room for what’s good seemed more amiable for those navigating newly open spaces without a chronic illness. Education level was linked with endorsing guarded social transitions. CONCLUSIONS While COVID-19 is no longer a global health risk, a worrisome proportion of older people still live more isolated lives. We encourage health and social care practitioners and older people themselves to share the messages identified in this study with more isolated others.

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Section: Public Health Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Content Analysis of Perceived Social Isolation Remedies Shared in a National E-Survey (Preprint)

Low,

von Humboldt,

Gloria

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…There are a number of social isolation remedy messages included to entice readers. In a recent study, cooking was linked with improved mood and sense of belonging and family [79].…”

Section: Public Health Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mitigating Social Isolation Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: Remedy Messages Shared by Older People

Low,

Humboldt,

Gutman

et al. 2024

COVID

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At the beginning of July 2022, when public health restrictions were lifted, we deployed a country-wide e-survey about how older people were managing now after COVID-19 pandemic-related anxiety. Our responder sample was stratified by age, sex, and education to approximate the Canadian population. E-survey responders were asked to share open-text messages about what contemporaries could do to live less socially isolated lives at this tenuous turning point following the pandemic as the COVID-19 virus still lingered. Contracting COVID-19 enhanced older Canadians’ risk for being hospitalized and/or mortality risk. Messages were shared by 1189 of our 1327 e-survey responders. Content analysis revealed the following four calls to action: (1) cultivating community; (2) making room for what is good; (3) not letting your guard down; and (4) voicing out challenges. Responders with no chronic illnesses were more likely to endorse making room for what is good. Those with no diploma, degree, or certificate least frequently instructed others to not let their guard down. While COVID-19 is no longer a major public health risk, a worrisome proportion of older people across the globe are still living socially isolated. We encourage health and social care practitioners and older people to share messages identified in this study with more isolated persons.

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“…They found that self-reported efficacy in cooking and grocery shopping skills improved and patients reported significant increases in calcium, vitamin D, grains, and fruit intake. Garcia and Privott [76], in a N = 1 qualitative study, discussed challenges and barriers to taking part in cooking classes in their description of one individual's transition to independent community living after long-term hospitalization with SMI. They attribute recovery to the person's sustained participation in meal preparation and cooking groups while in hospital.…”

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Women with Schizophrenia Have Difficulty Maintaining Healthy Diets for Themselves and Their Children: A Narrative Review

Seeman

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Severe psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia are inevitably linked to unemployment, meagre per capita income, and residence in disadvantaged, poorly resourced neighbourhoods. This means difficult access to healthy food and is particularly problematic for pregnant women and mothers with children to feed. The necessity of taking antipsychotic drugs is an additional barrier to healthy eating because these drugs are associated with serious cognitive, psychological, behavioural, and metabolic sequelae. Being ill with psychosis makes it extremely difficult to maintain a healthy diet; nutritional deficiencies result, as do medical complications. The results of present literature review confirm the gravity of the problem and suggest a number of potentially useful clinical interventions.

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Meal Preparation and Cooking Group Participation in Mental Health: A Community Transition

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Content Analysis of Perceived Social Isolation Remedies Shared in a National E-Survey (Preprint)

Content Analysis of Perceived Social Isolation Remedies Shared in a National E-Survey (Preprint)

Mitigating Social Isolation Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: Remedy Messages Shared by Older People

Women with Schizophrenia Have Difficulty Maintaining Healthy Diets for Themselves and Their Children: A Narrative Review

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