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Burton, Melissa; Riddell, Lynn; Worsley, Anthony – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: Food education in secondary schools can provide adolescents with essential food knowledge and skills required for healthy, independent living. The purpose of this paper is to identify food-related knowledge and skills that Australian consumers believe are required for all consumers, and to identify their demographic and psychographic…
Descriptors: Food, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Nutrition Instruction
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Stage, Virginia C.; Kolasa, Kathryn M.; Díaz, Sebastián R.; Duffrin, Melani W. – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Explore associations between nutrition, science, and mathematics knowledge to provide evidence that integrating food/nutrition education in the fourth-grade curriculum may support gains in academic knowledge. Methods: Secondary analysis of a quasi-experimental study. Sample included 438 students in 34 fourth-grade classrooms across…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Sciences, Mathematics, Nutrition Instruction
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Stephens, Torrance T.; Resinicow, Ken; Latimer-Sport, Markita; Walker, Lauren – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Background: This study examined the extent to which social cognitive theory is involved in dietary behavior changes among a sample of African Americans in Georgia. Purpose: We examined whether outcome expectations, barriers, and self-efficacy mediate changes in fruit and vegetable intake behavior. Methods: To accomplish this, we used change scores…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Social Theories, Eating Habits, Behavior Change
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Walters, Amber; Long, Marilee – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2012
Objective: To determine whether differences in nutrition knowledge affected how women (a high-involvement group) interpreted intrinsic cues (ingredient list) and extrinsic cues ("all natural" label) on food labels. Methods: A 2 (intrinsic cue) x 2 (extrinsic cue) x 2 (nutrition knowledge expert vs novice) within-subject factorial design…
Descriptors: Expertise, Cues, Nutrition, Inferences
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Wyker, Brett A.; Jordan, Patricia; Quigley, Danielle L. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2012
Objective: Application of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) evaluation and development and validation of an evaluation tool used to measure TTM constructs is described. Methods: Surveys were collected from parents of children receiving food at Summer Food Service Program sites prior…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Nutrition, Parents
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Shriver, Lenka H.; Hildebrand, Deana; Austin, Heidi – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: Determine relationships between self-efficacy, decisional balance, and processes of change and Stages of Change (SOC) related to fruit and vegetable (FV) availability among Hispanic Head Start parents. Design: A 2-phase descriptive study with mixed methodology. Setting: Two Head Start sites in a city in the midwestern United States.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Focus Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Predictor Variables