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Healthy Eating in a Boys & Girls Club Afterschool Programme: Barriers, Facilitators and Opportunities
- Source :
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Health Education Journal . Dec 2020 79(8):914-931. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Objective: To determine intervention needs and to gather stakeholder input regarding healthy eating promotion for youth members served at a Boys & Girls Club in Rochester, Minnesota. Design: Mixed-methods design informed by community-based participatory research principles. Setting and Method: Young people completed a dietary habits questionnaire and height and weight measurements. Focus groups gathered stakeholder -- Boys & Girls Club members, staff, caregivers -- perspectives on opportunities to improve children's healthy eating through the club setting. Content analysis identified major themes in informants' accounts. Results: Participants identified individual and environmental barriers to healthy eating and opportunities to reduce barriers at this Boys & Girls Club site. Few children met basic nutritional guidelines related to fruit, vegetable, milk and water consumption, and limiting consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, and nearly half were overweight/obese. Stakeholders expressed interest in healthy eating promotion and identified multiple individual-level, interpersonal and environmental opportunities to promote healthier eating through the Boys & Girls Club site. Conclusion: Findings build on a growing literature indicating afterschool programmes are uniquely positioned to address health disparities related to paediatric nutrition and obesity, and can be used to inform the design of a multi-layered intervention to address the complexities influencing dietary quality and obesity among diverse and underserved youth.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0017-8969
- Volume :
- 79
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Health Education Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1269990
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896920936722