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An Integrated Theatre Production for School Nutrition Promotion Program
Robert Bush1, Sandra Capra2, Selina Box3
1School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston 4006, Australia. r.bush@uq.edu.au.
Children (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 3, 2018
Summary
A school-based theatre program improved children's nutrition knowledge and attitudes, leading to healthier lunch boxes for up to six weeks. This integrated approach shows promise for childhood obesity prevention.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Health Promotion
- Nutrition Education
Background:
- Childhood obesity rates remain high, necessitating effective school-based health promotion strategies.
- Theatre production is a recognized health behavior promotion strategy, yet lacks rigorous outcome evaluation.
- Evaluating innovative approaches like integrated theatre programs is crucial for improving children's nutritional behaviors.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the impact of a two-part, place-based theatre performance program on children's nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
- To assess the effectiveness of an integrated theatre and healthy eating competition intervention in a school setting.
Main Methods:
- A quasi-experimental design involving 212 students across five schools in urban and semi-rural areas.
- Intervention included a theatre performance and a healthy eating competition.
- Data collection involved pre-, during-, and post-intervention surveys (knowledge, attitudes) and lunch box content analysis (nutrition behavior) up to six weeks post-intervention.
Main Results:
- Both program components significantly improved nutrition knowledge; the theatre performance enhanced healthy eating attitudes.
- Lunch box scores for 'Sometimes foods,' 'Everyday foods,' and overall content improved significantly post-intervention and remained elevated at 4-6 weeks.
- School catchment area demonstrated interaction effects on four of five measured variables, indicating geographical influence.
Conclusions:
- An integrated theatre production program, using a 'super-setting' approach, can effectively improve children's nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
- The program demonstrated success in translating learned information into practical lunch box preparation, with sustained effects.
- School-based theatre interventions, when carefully designed, offer a viable strategy for enhancing student nutritional activities and addressing childhood obesity.
Keywords:
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