Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921339
- Title
- 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
- Author/Creator
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Morgan, Philip J.;
Warren, Janet M.;
Lubans, David R.;
Saunders, Kristen L.;
Quick, Garbrielle I.;
Collins, Clare E.
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education
- Description
- Objective: 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. Design: Quasi-experimental 10-week intervention with nutrition education and garden (NE&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. Setting: Two primary schools in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia. Subjects: A total of 127 students in Grades 5 and 6 (11–12 years old; 54 % boys). Results: Relative to controls, significant between-group differences were found for NE&G and NE students for overall willingness to taste vegetables (P < 0·001) and overall taste ratings of vegetables (P < 0·001). A treatment effect was found for the NE&G group for: ability to identify vegetables (P < 0·001); willingness to taste capsicum (P = 0·04), broccoli (P = 0·01), tomato (P < 0·001) and pea (P = 0·02); and student preference to eat broccoli (P < 0·001) and pea (P < 0·001) as a snack. No group-by-time differences were found for vegetable intake (P = 0·22), fruit intake (P = 0·23) or QoSL (P = 0·98). Conclusions: 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.
- Relation
- Public Health Nutrition Vol. 13, Issue 11, p. 1931-1940
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980010000959
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Keyword(s)
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school garden;
vegetable;
primary school;
intervention
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921339
- Identifier
- ISSN:1368-9800
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