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The Green Eating Project: web-based intervention to promote environmentally conscious eating behaviours in US university students.
- Source :
- Public Health Nutrition; Sep2015, Vol. 18 Issue 13, p2368-2378, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- <bold>Objective: </bold>To investigate the effectiveness of an online, interactive intervention, referred to as the Green Eating (GE) Project, to motivate university students to adopt GE behaviours.<bold>Design: </bold>The study was quasi-experimental and integrated into courses for credit/extra credit. Courses were randomly stratified into experimental or non-treatment control. The 5-week intervention consisted of four modules based on different GE topics. Participants completed the GE survey at baseline (experimental, n 241; control, n 367) and post (experimental, n 187; control, n 304). The GE survey has been previously validated and consists of Transtheoretical Model constructs including stage of change (SOC), decisional balance (DB: Pros and Cons) and self-efficacy (SE: School and Home) as well as behaviours for GE. Modules contained basic information regarding each topic and knowledge items to assess content learning.<bold>Setting: </bold>The GE Project took place at a public university in the north-eastern USA.<bold>Subjects: </bold>Participants were full-time students between the ages of 18 and 24 years.<bold>Results: </bold>The GE Project was effective in significantly increasing GE behaviours, DB Pros, SE School and knowledge in experimental compared with control, but did not reduce DB Cons or increase SE Home. Experimental participants were also more likely to be in later SOC for GE at post testing.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The GE Project was effective in increasing GE behaviours in university students. Motivating consumers towards adopting GE could assist in potentially mitigating negative consequences of the food system on the environment. Future research could tailor the intervention to participant SOC to further increase the effects or design the modules for other participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FOOD habits
FOOD consumption
COLLEGE students
SELF-efficacy
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
TRANSTHEORETICAL model of change
NUTRITION surveys
COMPARATIVE studies
COMPUTER assisted instruction
CONSERVATION of natural resources
DECISION making
DIET
FOOD supply
HEALTH attitudes
INTERNET
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
NUTRITION policy
PATIENT compliance
RESEARCH
STATISTICAL sampling
SELF-evaluation
EVALUATION research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13689800
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 13
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Health Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109325803
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980015002396