Diet quality of elementary and middle school teachers is associated with healthier nutrition-related classroom practices
| Autor: | Termeh M. Feinberg, Lindsey Turner, Brit I. Saksvig, Hannah G. Lane, Amy Zemanick, Erin R. Hager, Rachel Deitch, Elizabeth A. Parker |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gerontology
education Ethnic group lcsh:Medicine 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Health Informatics Healthy eating Overweight behavioral disciplines and activities Childhood obesity 03 medical and health sciences School teachers 0302 clinical medicine mental disorders medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Obesity School-based intervention Multilevel model lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Regular Article Teachers medicine.disease Diet quality medicine.symptom Psychology Wellness policies |
| Zdroj: | Preventive Medicine Reports Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 18, Iss, Pp-(2020) |
| ISSN: | 2211-3355 |
| Popis: | Highlights • Overall diet quality of teachers is low. • High prevalence of overweight/obesity exists among teachers. • Teacher dietary quality is associated with food-specific classroom behaviors. Many schools have implemented policies and programs to address childhood obesity. However, few have evaluated obesity-related health behaviors among teachers, or how these behaviors may be associated with teachers’ nutrition-related practices in the classroom setting. This cross-sectional study utilized data from teachers employed in 20 schools representing three public school districts in a mid-Atlantic state from 2017 to 2019 to examine associations between teachers’ diet quality and their nutrition-related classroom practices (e.g. rewarding students with food; modeling healthy diet behaviors). Measures included: one 24-h dietary recall summarized via healthy eating index (HEI-2015; higher scores indicate better diet quality; Range: 0–100); demographics, self-reported height/weight (BMI; ≥25 kg/m2 = overweight/obese), and nutrition-related classroom practices (10 item survey; sum score range: 0–40; alpha = 0.65; higher score = more health-promoting practices). Associations between HEI and nutrition-related classroom practices were assessed in multilevel models, adjusting for covariates (gender, race/ethnicity, age, income, BMI, years teaching) and controlling for within-school effects. Of 331 teachers recruited, 116 (35.0%) completed both the optional dietary recall and incentivized survey (analytic sample: 89% female; 45% black; 79% overweight/obese; BMI = 30.5 ± 7.1; aged 41.1 ± 11.8 years). Means and standard deviations were calculated for HEI (52.2 ± 12.2) and nutrition-related classroom practices sum score (25.4 ± 5.9). For every one-unit increase in HEI, there was a 0.20 increase in nutrition-related classroom practices score (SE = 0.05; p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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