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  • Titel: 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
  • Beteiligte: Morgan, Philip J; Warren, Janet M; Lubans, David R; Saunders, Kristen L; Quick, Garbrielle I; Collins, Clare E
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010
  • Erschienen in: Public Health Nutrition, 13 (2010) 11, Seite 1931-1940
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s1368980010000959
  • ISSN: 1368-9800; 1475-2727
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs1" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs2" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Design</jats:title><jats:p>Quasi-experimental 10-week intervention with nutrition education and garden (NE&amp;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.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs3" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Setting</jats:title><jats:p>Two primary schools in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs4" sec-type="subjects"><jats:title>Subjects</jats:title><jats:p>A total of 127 students in Grades 5 and 6 (11–12 years old; 54 % boys).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs5" sec-type="results"><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Relative to controls, significant between-group differences were found for NE&amp;G and NE students for overall willingness to taste vegetables (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001) and overall taste ratings of vegetables (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001). A treatment effect was found for the NE&amp;G group for: ability to identify vegetables (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001); willingness to taste capsicum (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·04), broccoli (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·01), tomato (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001) and pea (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·02); and student preference to eat broccoli (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001) and pea (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 0·001) as a snack. No group-by-time differences were found for vegetable intake (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·22), fruit intake (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·23) or QoSL (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0·98).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980010000959_abs6" sec-type="conclusion"><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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