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- Title
Intervention effects of a school-based health promotion programme on children's nutrition behaviour.
- Authors
Kobel, Susanne; Wartha, Olivia; Dreyhaupt, Jens; Feather, Katie E.; Steinacker, Jürgen M.
- Abstract
Aim: The programme "Join the Healthy Boat" promotes amongst other things a healthy diet in primary school children. In order to evaluate the programme's effectiveness, this study longitudinally investigated children's nutrition behaviour. Subject and methods: A total of 1564 children (7.1 ± 0.6 years) participated in a cluster-randomised study. Teachers delivered lessons including behavioural contracting and budgeting. Nutritional behaviours of parents and child were assessed via parental report. Anthropometrics were measured on site. Results: After one year, children in the intervention group (IG) showed a significant reduction in the consumption of pure juices (p ≤ 0.001). Soft drink consumption reduced in both groups, although with a trend towards a slightly greater reduction in the IG. Children with fathers of normal weight as well as first graders showed a significant reduction of soft drink consumption in the IG (p = 0.025 and p = 0.022 respectively). Fruit and vegetable intake increased significantly for first graders (p = 0.050), children from families with a high parental education level (p = 0.023), and for children with an overweight father (p = 0.034). Significant group differences were found for fruit and vegetable intake of children with migration background (p = 0.01) and children of parents with a high school degree could be observed (p = 0.019). Conclusion: This shows that the programme appeals to a wider range of children, and is therefore more likely to compensate for differences due to origin or other social inequalities, which also shows that active parental involvement is vital for successful interventions.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of obesity; HEALTH behavior in children; SCHOOL health services; NUTRITION; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMAN services programs; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; BODY mass index; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
Journal of Public Health (09431853), 2023, Vol 31, Issue 10, p1747
- ISSN
0943-1853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10389-022-01726-y