ArticleFood & nutrition research2021
Effectiveness of a kindergarten-based intervention to increase vegetable intake and reduce food neophobia amongst 1-year-old children: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
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- Assessing the scalability of healthy eating interventions within the early childhood education and care setting: secondary analysis of a Cochrane systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
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- Assessing and Enhancing Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments in Early Childhood Education and Care Centers: Scoping Review of eHealth Tools.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Review
- Implementation strategies: lessons learned during an e-learning intervention to improve dietary behaviors and feeding practices in early childhood education and care.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- The influence of family in children's feeding difficulties: an integrative review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Enhancing core components for a digital "healthy eating" resource in early childhood and care settings: staff's perceptions and needs.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Implementing an early-life nutrition intervention through primary healthcare: staff perspectives.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- "I'm not sure whether I will implement it": exploring barriers and facilitators to implementing a digital "healthy eating" resource in early education and care settings - teachers' perspectives.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
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- Scaling up evidence-based digital early life nutrition interventions in a county setting: an implementation trial - protocol for Phase 2 of theFrontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The lived experience of parenting a child with sensory sensitivity and picky eating.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based early-life nutrition interventions in a community setting a hybrid type 1 non-randomized trial - the Nutrition Now project protocol.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundChildren's first years of life are crucial to their future health. Studies show that a varied diet with a high intake of vegetables is positive in several domains of health. The present low vegetable intake amongst children is, therefore, a concern. Food neophobia is a common barrier to vegetable intake in children. As most Norwegian children attend kindergarten from an early age, kindergartens could contribute to the prevention of food neophobia and the promotion of vegetable intake.
objectiveThe aim of this study was to assess the effect of a cluster randomised trial amongst 1-year-old children in kindergarten to reduce food neophobia and promote healthy eating.
methodsKindergartens were randomly allocated to either a control group or one of two intervention groups. Both intervention groups (diet and diet + Sapere-method) were served a warm lunch meal including three alternating intervention vegetables, whilst the intervention group 2 (diet + Sapere) in addition received tools for weekly sensory lessons. The intervention was digitally administered via information and recipes on a study website. The control group did not receive any information. Parents completed digitally distributed questionnaires addressing food neophobia and food habits at baseline and post-intervention.
resultsThe parents of 144 1-year-old children in 46 kindergartens completed the questionnaires, which were included in the main analysis. The results suggested a higher intake of the intervention vegetables in group 2 (diet + Sapere) compared to the control group. The effect on total vegetable intake was inconclusive. No effect was observed on the level of food neophobia in either of the intervention group.
conclusionThis digitally delivered dietary and sensory intervention promoted the intake of intervention-targeted vegetables with inconclusive effect on total vegetable intake due to large loss to follow-up. No effect on the level of food neophobia was detected.
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