P949 - ADHERENCE TO A SUSTAINABLE DIET AND A HIGHER LEVEL OF CULINARY SKILLS MAY BE PROTECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACROVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF T2DM

P949

ADHERENCE TO A SUSTAINABLE DIET AND A HIGHER LEVEL OF CULINARY SKILLS MAY BE PROTECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACROVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF T2DM

H. Ozcaliskan Ilkay^1,* on behalf of Canan Tekkas, Zilfi Karaguzel, Berru Kalfaoglu, Fatma Betul Ozdogan, Melih Urgup, Nisa Nur Islek

¹Nutrition and Dietetics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye

Rationale: Adherence to a sustainable and healthy dietary pattern, as well as the promotion of cooking and food skills, may contribute to preparing more nutritious meals, assist in self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and probably prevent chronic complications. 

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 patients of T2DM (101 women,19 men) from an outpatient clinic of endocrinology and metabolism in a university. The mean age was 58.6±10.0 years, and diabetes duration was 11.6±6.5 years. Macrovascular complications were defined by the presence of at least one of the following diseases: cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease. Cooking methods, food preparation techniques, meal planning and preparing, shopping, budgeting, resourcefulness, and label reading were assessed via the Cooking Skills and Food Skills Scale. The Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener questionnaire was used to estimate adherence to the Mediterranean diet. The differences in dependent variables between the two groups were evaluated by the Univariate General Linear Model test by eliminating the effects of age, T2DM duration, body mass index, and energy intake (kcal/day).

Results: After adjustments, the cooking method score (F=5.421; p=0.022), the total score of cooking skills (F=4.361; p=0.039), the meal planning and preparing score (F=5.132; p=0.025), the budgeting score (F=11.734; p=0.001), the total score of food skills (F=7.595; p=0.007), and also Mediterranean Diet Adherence Score (F=0.041; p=0.041) were significantly higher in patients without macrovascular complication as compared to patients with macrovascular complication.

Conclusion: Intensive culinary intervention programs and promoting adherence to the Mediterranean diet are key to achieving optimal metabolic control and facilitating self-management in T2DM.

Disclosure of Interest: None declared