5. Conclusions
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment and engagement of underserved populations in virtual culinary medicine and nutrition studies is challenging. Although our study team had substantial experience in the delivery of in-person culinary medicine and nutrition interventions, translating these experiences to virtual platforms presented an array of technological barriers and logistical challenges. Our study is unique in that we enrolled participants in a randomized trial of culinary medicine rather than evaluating outcomes in participants who self-select into such a program. Virtual culinary medicine and nutrition trials require significant infrastructure and support from study teams to facilitate participation in interventions. By engaging study participants, study team members, and community partners, we identified actionable items to improve study processes to successfully recruit and engage participants in both eCM and virtual MNT.