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Abstract
UGA EFNEP delivers community nutrition education to adolescents, grades 9-12, using two curricula: Food Talk Teen and Teen Cuisine. A secondary analysis was performed to assess pre/post behavior change among and between the two curricula. A separate group of adolescents participating in Teen Cuisine completed additional questions to measure goal setting feasibility and pre/post readiness to change. The curricula were comparable in promoting behavior change. Behavior areas, diet quality, physical activity, and food safety, improved significantly in each curriculum (P<.001). For goal setting feasibility, 100% of participants reported setting health and nutrition goals. Reported readiness to change significantly increased for physical activity and food safety behaviors (P<.05). Future research can assess the effects of goal setting and readiness to change on EFNEP youth health behaviors. This study establishes that both UGA EFNEP curricula promote nutrition and health behavior change for adolescents and goal setting is a feasible curriculum addition.