Farm to Elementary School Programming Increases Access to Fruits and Vegetables and Increases Their Consumption Among Those With Low Intake
Autor: | Daniel J. McCarty, Andrea B. Bontrager Yoder, Tara L. LaRowe, Amy Meinen, Janice L. Liebhart, Camilla Vargas, Dale A. Schoeller |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Program evaluation Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Cross-sectional study education Medicine (miscellaneous) Overweight Food Preferences Wisconsin Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health Vegetables Humans Medicine Child Health Education Consumption (economics) Farm to School Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Food Services food and beverages Food frequency questionnaire Cross-Sectional Studies Fruit Fruits and vegetables Female Health education medicine.symptom business Program Evaluation |
Zdroj: | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 46:341-349 |
ISSN: | 1499-4046 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jneb.2014.04.297 |
Popis: | To assess the effectiveness of Wisconsin Farm to School (F2S) programs in increasing students' fruit and vegetable (FV) intake.Quasi-experimental baseline and follow-up assessments: knowledge and attitudes survey, food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and lunch tray photo observation.Wisconsin elementary schools: 1 urban and 8 rural.Children, grades 3-5 (n = 1,117; 53% male, 19% non-Caucasian).Farm to School programming ranging from Harvest of the Month alone to comprehensive, including school garden, locally sourced produce in school meals, and classroom lessons.Knowledge, attitudes, exposure, liking, willingness; FFQ-derived (total), and photo-derived school lunch FV intake.t tests and mixed modeling to assess baseline differences and academic-year change.Higher willingness to try FV (+1%; P.001) and knowledge of nutrition/agriculture (+1%; P.001) (n = 888), and lunch FV availability (+6% to 17%; P ≤ .001) (n = 4,451 trays), both with increasing prior F2S program exposure and across the year. There was no effect on overall dietary patterns (FFQ; n = 305) but FV consumption increased among those with the lowest intakes (FFQ, baseline very low fruit intake, +135%, P.001; photos: percentage of trays with no FV consumption for continuing programs decreased 3% to 10%, P ≤ .05).Farm to School programming improved mediators of FV consumption and decreased the proportion of children with unfavorable FV behaviors at school lunch. Longer-term data are needed to further assess F2S programs. |
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