Research perspective on school-based nutrition education

Contento, Isobel R.; Manning, Amanda Dew; Shannon, Barbara

doi:10.1016/s0022-3182(12)81240-4

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“…Fat content of foods and fat-content labelling may also affect the food preferences and choices of preadolescent children (Engell et al, 1998). The nutrition education of school-aged children in different contexts clearly increases children's nutrition knowledge (Nader et al, 1996) and nutrition education that Impact of nutrition counselling on nutrition knowledge and nutrition intake M Räsänen et al involves parents is likely to also result in dietary behaviour changes (Contento et al, 1992). When children's nutrition knowledge and understanding of the rationale behind the family's dietary habits increases, they thereby have a greater chance of keeping their healthy food habits in spite of the influence of the peers and the media and normative expectations of eating less high-fat foods and sweets, as well as different kinds of 'junk food' and 'fast food' (Baranowski et al, 1999;Cullen et al, 2000).…”

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Impact of nutrition counselling on nutrition knowledge and nutrient intake of 7- to 9-y-old children in an atherosclerosis prevention project

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Objective: To assess the impact of nutrition counselling given to 7.5-to 9-y-old children and their parents on children's nutrition knowledge and nutrient intakes. Design and subjects: The study children are participants in a prospective, randomised STRIP study (Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project for Children), whose aim was to decrease the intakes of saturated fat and cholesterol while increasing the intake of unsaturated fat in the intervention children from the age of 7 months onwards. Nutrition counselling was given only to the parents until the child's age of 7 y. Nutrition knowledge and nutrient intakes (total energy, total fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat and sodium) were studied in a time-restricted cohort of 47, 7-y-old intervention and 51 control children. Thereafter, nutrition counselling was given both to the children and parents. Children's nutrition knowledge and nutrient intakes were measured again at the age of 9 y. Results: Biannual nutrition counselling given to the intervention children and the parents maintained the differences in saturated fatty acid intake attained during the intervention given to the parents alone (11.5 vs 13.3 E% (percent of energy intake), at the age of 7 y, Po0.01; 11.1 vs 13.4 E% at the age of 9 y, respectively; Po0.01). The intervention children used more polyunsaturated fatty acids at the age of 9 y than the control children (5.7 vs 5.1 E%, P ¼ 0.05). At 7 y, the intervention and control children had similar nutrition knowledge scores (total knowledge score 12.9 vs 12.0, respectively, P ¼ 0.13). After 1.5 y of nutrition intervention, at 9 y, the intervention children's nutrition knowledge was higher than that of the controls (total nutrition score 16.5 vs 13.2, respectively, Po0.001) and the ability to explain the reasons for their picture choices in the nutrition knowledge test had increased. Conclusion: This study showed that only a relatively short period of counselling with low input is needed to increase in children's nutrition knowledge and ability to explain nutrition-related subjects if advice has first been given to the parents and if the parents have received reinforcement and concrete help with parent-child communication after their children have been involved in the counselling. The differences attained in nutrient intake could also be maintained.

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Impact of nutrition counselling on nutrition knowledge and nutrient intake of 7- to 9-y-old children in an atherosclerosis prevention project

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“…Other evaluation studies found a positive effect on attitude in the short or longer term (19,31,36,37) . In a review of Contento et al (38) , it is stated that effects of school-based nutrition education programmes on attitudes were generally positive but inconsistent. Furthermore, it is stated that up to 50 classroom hours of exposure are required to achieve stable improvements (38) .…”

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Effect of the Dutch school-based education programme ‘Taste Lessons’ on behavioural determinants of taste acceptance and healthy eating: a quasi-experimental study

Battjes-Fries

Haveman‐Nies

Renes

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To assess the effect of the Dutch school-based education programme 'Taste Lessons' on children's behavioural determinants towards tasting unfamiliar foods and eating healthy and a variety of foods. Design: In a quasi-experimental study design, data on behavioural determinants were collected at baseline, four weeks and six months after the intervention in both the intervention and control group. Children completed consecutively three questionnaires in which knowledge, awareness, skills, attitude, emotion, subjective norm and intention towards the two target behaviours were assessed. Teachers implemented on average a third of the programme activities. Multilevel regression analyses were conducted to compare individual changes in the determinants in the intervention group with those in the control group, corrected for children's gender and age. Effect sizes were expressed as Cohen's d. Setting: Dutch elementary schools. Subjects: Forty-nine classes (1183 children, 9-12 years old) in grades 5-8 of twenty-one elementary schools. Results: The intervention group showed a higher increase in knowledge (d = 0·26, P < 0·01), which persisted after six months (d = 0·23, P < 0·05). After four weeks, the intervention group showed a higher increase in number of foods known (d = 0·22, P < 0·05) and tasted (d = 0·21, P < 0·05), subjective norm of the teacher (d = 0·17, P < 0·05) and intention (d = 0·16, P < 0·05) towards the target behaviours. Conclusions: Partial implementation of Taste Lessons during one school year showed small short-term effects on increasing behavioural determinants in relation to tasting unfamiliar foods and eating healthy and a variety of foods. Full and repeated implementation of Taste Lessons in subsequent years might result in larger effects.

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“…However, both the physiological precursors of CVD 3 as well as the behavioural patterns 3 related to the development of the disease have their roots in childhood. The accumulative evidence on the preventive potential of school-based health and nutrition education programmes 4 has lead the Preventive Medicine and Nutrition Clinic of the University of Crete to design and implement such a programme in Greek primary schools.…”

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Health and Nutrition Education in Elementary Schools: Changes in health knowledge, nutrient intakes and physical activity over a six year period

Μanios

Kafatos

1999

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To examine the effects of a health and nutrition intervention, implemented in primary schools of Crete, on health knowledge, nutrient intakes and physical activity of the intervention population. Methods: The intervention group consisted of 24 schools while the control group consisted of 16 schools. The overall duration of the intervention was six years, while the topics of the intervention primarily focused on children' dietary habits, physical activity and fitness. Results: After the completion of the intervention period, the changes observed in health knowledge, nutrient intakes and physical activity were in favour of the intervention group pupils. Conclusion:The encouraging findings of the study indicate the potential of the programme in health promotion and disease prevention without involving substantial new school resources and time.

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Research perspective on school-based nutrition education

Cited by 158 publications

References 64 publications

Impact of nutrition counselling on nutrition knowledge and nutrient intake of 7- to 9-y-old children in an atherosclerosis prevention project

Impact of nutrition counselling on nutrition knowledge and nutrient intake of 7- to 9-y-old children in an atherosclerosis prevention project

Effect of the Dutch school-based education programme ‘Taste Lessons’ on behavioural determinants of taste acceptance and healthy eating: a quasi-experimental study

Health and Nutrition Education in Elementary Schools: Changes in health knowledge, nutrient intakes and physical activity over a six year period

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