Joshua Whang, BA1, Bowei Deng, MD2, Ann Shum, 2, Amanda Leung, BA1, Sushrut Jangi, MD2 1Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; 2Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Introduction: Cooking meals at home has been considered to support a healthier dietary pattern, with reduced risks of obesity and diabetes. However, the relationship between home cooking patterns and IBD has not been evaluated. Our project aims to describe home cooking patterns in IBD patients during relapse and remission at a single urban tertiary medical center.
Methods: A cross-sectional cohort of 80 IBD patients seen at Tufts Medical Center were given validated Cooking with a Chef Survey that assesses attitudes, self-efficacy/confidence, and behaviors related to home cooking. Odds ratio for various food preparation practices were calculated using ordinal and binomial logistic regression while adjusting for age, sex, race, disease duration, smoking history, medications, and surgical history. Average section scores were compared between the remission and active disease group using two sample T-test.
Results: After multivariate adjustment, patients with active disease had higher odds of perceiving home cooking as too time-consuming (odds ratio [95% CI] = 2.49 [1.22, 3.76]) and felt that it was too much work to cook at home (odds ratio [95% CI] = 2.16 [1.03, 3.28]) compared to patients in remission. Clinically active patients tended to have more negative attitudes towards home-cooking than those in remission (p-value [95% CI] = 0.05 [-4.696, 0.029]).
Discussion: Clinically active IBD patients tended to have negative attitudes towards home cooking than patients in clinical remission. Further assessment of nutritional habits during relapse and remission may allow for the provision of more effective dietary counseling.
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Disclosures:
Joshua Whang indicated no relevant financial relationships.
Bowei Deng indicated no relevant financial relationships.
Ann Shum indicated no relevant financial relationships.
Amanda Leung indicated no relevant financial relationships.
Sushrut Jangi indicated no relevant financial relationships.
Joshua Whang, BA1, Bowei Deng, MD2, Ann Shum, 2, Amanda Leung, BA1, Sushrut Jangi, MD2. P2632 - Cooking at Home Practices in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, ACG 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Gastroenterology.
