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Impact of School-Based Interventions on Children’s Healthful Nutritional Outcomes (2009-2013): Implications for Future...
ISSN: 1929 - 4247
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Impact of School-Based Interventions on Children’s Healthful Nutritional Outcomes (2009-2013): Implications for Future...
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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IAA.ZONE/192991714247
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Abstract
Objective: The objective was to review the literature on school-based interventions during compulsory education (published in 2009-2013) that may be effective in increasing healthful nutritional outcomes in children. Specific strategies and their limitations will be identified. Methods: A qualitative systematic analysis of seventeen school-based interventions applied to six-eleven year-old children, and published in peer-reviewed journals from 2009-2013 was carried out. Results: These studies taken as a whole used a variety of fourteen strategies, such as provision of nutritional and gardening education; repeated exposure to vegetables (V); peer and adult modelling; chefs going into schools to teach healthy nutritional issues. These studies showed four types of limitations: limitations derived from the experimental designs and experimental procedures used and limitations affecting participant samples and data collection. Fifteen recom...
