Trial reportPublic health nutrition2020
Impact of a nutrition education programme on preschool children's willingness to consume fruits and vegetables.
Trial report in Public health nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Implementation and effectiveness of a food education intervention to promote plant-based foods: a partially cluster-randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
- The impact of dialogic reading-based nutrition education on preschool children's nutrition knowledge and dietary diversity: a quasi-experimental study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Psychology of Eating the Future: Consumer Acceptance, Digital Influence and Behavioral Drivers of Novel Foods.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- From preschool to policy: A scoping review of recommended interventions for a systems approach to improve dietary intake in early childhood.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
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- Household- and community-level factors of zero vegetable or fruit consumption among children aged 6-23 months in East Africa.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Changes in demands and resources faced by the early childhood education workforce due to COVID-19.Journal of early childhood research : ECR · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the impact of a preschool-based nutrition education programme consisting of twelve 'hands on' nutrition education lessons delivered during the school year on young children's willingness to consume fruits and vegetables.
designQuasi-experimental, pre-post design including the collection of plate waste evaluation data at the start and end of the 2015-2016 school year within two groups: (1) randomly selected classrooms receiving the intervention and (2) within conveniently sampled preschool classrooms not receiving the intervention serving as a comparison group.
settingCentre-based preschool programmes serving low-income families in the Denver metro area.
participantsThree- to five-year-old children in preschool classrooms participating in the intervention during the 2015-2016 school year (n 308) and children enrolled in comparison classrooms (n 215).
resultsRepeated-measures logit models assessed whether increases in the odds of consuming small samples of fruits and vegetables between Time 1 (pre-intervention) and Time 2 (post-intervention) were different for children within the intervention group compared with the comparison group. Analyses showed that the change over time in consumption of the three vegetable samples varied by intervention status with greater change occurring among children within the intervention group (edamame: P = 0·001; cauliflower: P ≤ 0·0001 and red pepper: P ≤ 0·0001). Unlike vegetables, the change over time in consumption of the two fruit samples was not different between children within the intervention and comparison groups.
conclusionsAn experiential-learning nutrition education programme can positively influence eating behaviours of low-income preschoolers in a centre-based setting by increasing willingness to consume vegetables.
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