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Eat The Rainbow! An Evaluation Of A Short-Term Fruit And Vegetable Nutrition Education Intervention For Elementary School Children, Elizabeth Diane Miller
Eat The Rainbow! An Evaluation Of A Short-Term Fruit And Vegetable Nutrition Education Intervention For Elementary School Children, Elizabeth Diane Miller
Masters Theses
Objective: To test differences on mean fruit and vegetable (FV) eaten, liking, preference, and self-efficacy scores among 3 modes of nutrition education intervention after a 3-week intervention.
Design: Convenience sample, pre- and post-test, quasi-experimental design.
Setting: Three elementary schools in a rural Eastern Tennessee County.
Participants: Participants were 160 3rd-5th graders.
Interventions: Three study schools: experiential (nutrition education, taste tests, and learning activity), conventional (nutrition education and learning activity), and control (learning activity).
Main Outcome Measures: Changes in pre- to post-intervention mean FV eaten, liking, preference, and self-efficacy scores.
Analysis: Mixed model ANOVA to compare the mean …