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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 …
Nutrition Knowledge And Child Care Feeding Practices Of Early Childhood Education Students: A Preliminary Study, Sarah Jill White
Nutrition Knowledge And Child Care Feeding Practices Of Early Childhood Education Students: A Preliminary Study, Sarah Jill White
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study was to describe the nutrition knowledge and child care feeding practices of Early Childhood Education students in a university setting. Thirty-three Early Childhood Education students from seven geographically diverse universities completed a web-based survey assessing nutrition knowledge and child feeding practices. A nutrition knowledge instrument was developed and validated to measure knowledge of nutrition for preschool-aged children. The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire, which has been previously validated in parents, was slightly modified and used to assess child feeding practices. Mean scores for the nutrition knowledge and child feeding practices were determined. Multivariate analyses were conducted …