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The impact of nutrition education with and without a school garden on knowledge, vegetable intake and preferences and quality of school life among primary-school students.
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Public health nutrition [Public Health Nutr] 2010 Nov; Vol. 13 (11), pp. 1931-40. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 May 05. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Objective: To investigate the impact of school garden-enhanced nutrition education (NE) on children's fruit and vegetable consumption, vegetable preferences, fruit and vegetable knowledge and quality of school life.<br />Design: Quasi-experimental 10-week intervention with nutrition education and garden (NE&G), NE only and control groups. Fruit and vegetable knowledge, vegetable preferences (willingness to taste and taste ratings), fruit and vegetable consumption (24 h recall × 2) and quality of school life (QoSL) were measured at baseline and 4-month follow-up.<br />Setting: Two primary schools in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia.<br />Subjects: A total of 127 students in Grades 5 and 6 (11-12 years old; 54 % boys).<br />Results: Relative to controls, significant between-group differences were found for NE&G and NE students for overall willingness to taste vegetables (P < 0·001) and overall taste ratings of vegetables (P < 0·001). A treatment effect was found for the NE&G group for: ability to identify vegetables (P < 0·001); willingness to taste capsicum (P = 0·04), broccoli (P = 0·01), tomato (P < 0·001) and pea (P = 0·02); and student preference to eat broccoli (P < 0·001) and pea (P < 0·001) as a snack. No group-by-time differences were found for vegetable intake (P = 0·22), fruit intake (P = 0·23) or QoSL (P = 0·98).<br />Conclusions: School gardens can impact positively on primary-school students' willingness to taste vegetables and their vegetable taste ratings, but given the complexity of dietary behaviour change, more comprehensive strategies are required to increase vegetable intake.
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- Child
Diet statistics & numerical data
Female
Fruit
Health Education methods
Health Promotion methods
Humans
Male
New South Wales
Schools
Students psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Child Nutrition Sciences education
Food Preferences psychology
Gardening
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Vegetables
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1475-2727
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Public health nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20441683
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980010000959