- 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
- Creator
- Morgan, Philip J.; Warren, Janet M.; Lubans, David R.; Saunders, Kristen L.; Quick, Garbrielle I.; Collins, Clare E.
- Relation
- Public Health Nutrition Vol. 13, Issue 11, p. 1931-1940
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980010000959
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- 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.
- Subject
- school garden; vegetable; primary school; intervention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921339
- Identifier
- uon:9291
- Identifier
- ISSN:1368-9800
- Language
- eng
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