Healthy Snacks in School: How Do Regulations Work? A <scp>Mixed‐Design</scp> Study

Torre, Sophie Bucher Della; Fabbi, Sidonie; Carrard, Isabelle

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“…Other studies applied photo evidence to assess the eating behaviors of scholars. It has been used as a source of data to analyze healthy eating within schools ( Bélanger et al, 2016 ), to compare the nutritional quality of morning snacks ( Bucher Della Torre et al, 2021 ), to measure what students at elementary schools select and consume from school cafeteria meals ( Swanson, 2008 ), and to evaluate what items children chose from the salad bar at schools ( Moreno-Black and Stockard, 2018 ). Photography has also been applied to examine the characteristics of effective drinking water access in schools ( Patel et al, 2020 ).…”

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Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children

2023

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The school represents the optimal setting for promoting the physical, emotional, and social health of children, especially during the first years of life. Understanding the pedagogical actions of teachers to address health education is an important first step in promoting healthy behaviors in children. We inhere analyzed the pedagogical action patterns in the preschool teaching of healthy habits from a holistic health perspective. We used photography as a strategy for data collection and applied a Chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) classification tree, a data mining procedure, to generate a pattern model. We found that the school space and the learning playfulness strategies for the development of executive functions, classified according to the exercise, symbolic, assembly, rules (ESAR) model, were the main factors that influence the pedagogical actions fostering healthy habits. By contrast, the school and the pedagogical resources of the classroom are factors with a much smaller impact on working with healthy habits. This pedagogical action pattern is flexible, since teachers conduct a multiplicity of pedagogical actions through different strategies, in different school spaces, at any time. In conclusion, our results unmask the interdependent relationships between the different factors that determine the teacher’s actions at the preschool. It also contributes to the understanding of the teacher’s practices in fostering healthy habits in a healthy learning environment.

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Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children

2023

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Co-Creation and Implementation of a Healthy Snacks Policy in Primary Schools: Data from Sintra Grows Healthy

Nogueira,

Ferreira,

Pinto

et al. 2024

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Policy interventions in the school food environment can improve dietary behaviors. However, the literature describing its development and implementation is scarce. This manuscript aims to describe the process of co-creation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of a Healthy Snacks Policy, in the scope of Sintra Grows Healthy intervention. Through a community-based participatory research methodology, the co-creation of the Healthy Snacks Policy comprises six stages: snacks evaluation, feedback sessions, class assemblies, school community assemblies, school cluster policy approval, and process evaluation. Within one school year, a Healthy Snacks Policy was co-created, approved, incorporated in the school regulations, implemented, continuously monitored, and evaluated. Regarding snacks evaluation, 1900 snacks were evaluated at the beginning of the school year and 1079 at the end of the school year. There were three feedback sessions, twenty-two class assemblies, and three school community assemblies. Most teachers perceived that children began to consume healthier snacks (72%); 66% of the children were considered to have started eating healthier; and most families said “yes or sometimes” when asked whether their children started requesting healthier snacks (70%), trying new foods (63%), and noticing improvements in their eating habits (74%). The co-creation of a Healthy Snacks Policy establishes an approach to effectively implement existing guidelines for school food supplies, complying with national priority implementation recommendations.

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Healthy Snacks in School: How Do Regulations Work? A Mixed‐Design Study

Cited by 2 publications

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Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children

Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children

Co-Creation and Implementation of a Healthy Snacks Policy in Primary Schools: Data from Sintra Grows Healthy

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