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Design and Implementation of a 5-Year School-Based Nutrition Education Intervention
Melissa Hawkins1, Erin Watts1, Sarah Irvine Belson2
1Department of Health Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University, Washington, DC.
Objective:
To describe the research methods of a multicomponent nutrition education program empowering teachers to improve nutrition literacy and prevent obesity among elementary school students.
Design:
Prospective 5-year study following a pre-post intervention design.
Setting:
Four elementary schools in a high-needs area in Washington, DC: 2 intervention and 2 comparison schools.
Participants:
Approximately 100 teachers (25/school) and 800 students (200/school) enrolled over the study period.
Intervention:
Healthy Schoolhouse 2.0 will engage teachers as agents of change by designing, implementing, and evaluating a structured professional development program to support the integration of nutrition concepts in the classroom.
Main Outcome Measures:
Change in pre-post survey assessment of students' nutrition literacy, attitudes, and intent; change in teachers' self-efficacy toward teaching nutrition; fruit and vegetable consumption data collected 6 times/y in the cafeteria.
Analysis:
Process evaluation throughout the study to document implementation and challenges. Multilevel mixed modeling will be used to determine the impact of the intervention.
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