Nutrition Education Research: Fast or Famine?

Saylor, Keith E.; Coates, Thomas J.; Killen, Joel D.; Slinkard, Lee Ann

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-177380-9.50030-x

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“…Much of the early research in school health education focused on knowledge‐based classroom programs. These early studies typically reported positive changes in student knowledge and attitudes, but generally failed to demonstrate improvement in health behaviors or positive changes in physiological risk 9,10 . Neglected in many of the knowledge‐based studies was consideration of the multiple factors in the etiology of health behaviors.…”

Section: Four Generations Of Health Education Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

School‐based Programs for Health‐risk Reduction

Nicklas

Johnson

Webber

et al. 1997

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Based on implications from the pediatric studies of cardiovascular risk, it has become imperative that practical methods be developed to begin prevention of heart disease early in life. Schools provide an excellent setting for introducing comprehensive health education and promotion as a public health approach to the general population. A number of school-based health education programs have been developed (Heart Ahead/Heart Smart, CATCH, Gimme 5) for children in kindergarten through high school, in which education and environmental changes have been shown to be effective in promoting healthful behaviors. The effective implementation of health education depends to a large extent on the training and motivation of teachers, administrators, and food service staff. Training Institutes can be important for increasing personal awareness, disseminating information and materials, motivating health education efforts for teachers, food service staff and their students, and evaluating the health risk of school personnel.

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Section: Four Generations Of Health Education Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

School‐based Programs for Health‐risk Reduction

Nicklas

Johnson

Webber

et al. 1997

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…A major literature review of nutrition education programmes in school settings published in 1982 [28] concluded that 'we found it surprising that an area with such great preventive potential has produced so few empirical studies' and 'there is obviously a need for more and better research in nutrition education'. In 1992, a review of the research studies conducted during the 1980s concluded that there had been an increase in school-based nutrition education research over the past decade, and that 'research designs and methodologies have been greatly improved, compared with previous reviews' [29] .…”

Section: School-based Nutrition Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among European Schoolchildren: Rationale, Conceptualization and Design of the Pro Children Project

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Background/Aims: The Pro Children Project was designed to assess fruit and vegetable consumption in European schoolchildren and their parents, as well as determinants of the children’s consumption patterns. A second objective was to develop and test strategies, applicable across Europe, for promoting consumption of fruits and vegetables among schoolchildren and their parents. In this paper, the rationale, theoretical background, overall design and implementation of the project is presented. Methods: Surveys of national, representative samples of 11-year-old schoolchildren and their parents were conducted in 9 countries, i.e. in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Comprehensive school-based educational programmes have been developed and tested in three settings, i.e. in Spain, the Netherlands and in Norway. A precoded 24-hour recall form combined with a set of food frequency questions assessing regular intake were used to assess fruit and vegetable consumption. Determinants were assessed employing a comprehensive theoretical framework including personal, social and environmental factors related to fruit and vegetable consumption. The intervention programmes have been tested employing a group-randomized trial design where schools have been randomly allocated to an intervention arm and a delayed intervention arm. Surveys among all participating children and their parents were conducted prior to the initiation of the intervention, immediately after the end of the intervention and at the end of the subsequent school year. Conclusion: The project is expected to provide new information of great importance for improving our understanding of consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables and for guiding future efforts to promote increased consumption patterns across Europe.

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“…This may be due to a limited understanding of children's eating patterns, weak intervention strategies, poor research designs, or outcome measures that are unable to detect changes in behavior. 7 In recent years a small number of programs have addressed these issues and achieved limited success in changing behavior in elementary school students.>l" The current direction the students' homes. Participation rates for all aspects of the study were notably high.…”

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Parent involvement with children's health promotion: the Minnesota Home Team.

Perry¹,

Luepker²,

Murray³

et al. 1988

Am J Public Health

218

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This study compares the efficacy of a school-based program to an equivalent home-based program with 2,250 third grade students in 31 urban schools in Minnesota in order to detect changes in dietary fat and sodium consumption. The school-based program, Hearty Heart and Friends, involved 15 sessions over five weeks in the third grade classrooms. The home-based program, the Home Team, involved a five-week correspondence course with the third graders, where parental involvement was necessary in order to complete the activities. Outcome measures included anthropometric, psychosocial and behavioral assessments at school, and dietary recall, food shelf inventories, and urinary sodium data collected in

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Nutrition Education Research: Fast or Famine?

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

School‐based Programs for Health‐risk Reduction

School‐based Programs for Health‐risk Reduction

Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among European Schoolchildren: Rationale, Conceptualization and Design of the Pro Children Project

Parent involvement with children's health promotion: the Minnesota Home Team.

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