Combining Realism with Rigour: An Evaluation of a National Kitchen Garden Program in Australian Primary Schools

Yeatman, Heather; Quinsey, Karen; Dawber, James; Nielsen, Wendy; Condon-Paoloni, Deanne; Eckermann, Simon; Morris, Darcy; Grootemaat, Pamela E; Fildes, David L

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“…Running in 10 per cent of schools, the program supports students to grow, prepare, cook, and eat plant-based foods. It has been demonstrated to encourage children to eat more vegetables and reconsider the need for meat to complete a meal (Yeatman et al, 2012).…”

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Learning from the success of tobacco control: how to leverage ideas, interests, and institutions to reduce red meat consumption

Bless

2023

Front. Sustain.

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Over-consumption of red meat has significant impacts on public health and the environment. To achieve a planetary health diet, consumption of red meat must be reduced across the developed world. However, policy action on this issue has been lacking and there is insufficient research exploring how to overcome barriers to reducing red meat consumption. Using the ‘three I’s’ policy change framework based around ideas, interests, and institutions and their influence on policy outcomes, this article will consider how the passage and success of Australia’s tobacco control regime could provide lessons for achieving reductions in Australian red meat consumption. Drawing on stakeholder analysis through semi-structured interviews, this analysis demonstrates the explanatory power of the ‘three I’s’ framework and highlights the essential roles of awareness-raising, cohesive policy networks, and a gradual increase in interventionism for achieving transformative changes in consumption behaviour. It also demonstrates the scale of barriers for policies aimed at reducing red meat over-consumption, and the potential policy windows that are opening due to a shift in meat consumption patterns.

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Learning from the success of tobacco control: how to leverage ideas, interests, and institutions to reduce red meat consumption

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2023

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“…Davis et al (2015) discuss reviewing 13 studies looking at the impact of garden-based programmes during and after school. An evaluation of Stephanie Alexandra Kitchen Garden Scheme confirmed that the initiative resulted in improved nutritional knowledge and nutritional benefits for learners (Block, Johnson, & SAKG, 2009; Yeatman et al, 2013). The popular success of these programmes has attracted widespread media attention and thus SBGs are remaining a familiar aspect of Australian school culture (Cutter-Mackenzie, 2009; Malone & Tranter, 2005).…”

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Thinking Outside the Circle: Reflections on Theory and Methods for School-Based Garden Research

Clague

Harrison

Stewart

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School-based gardens (SBGs) are contributing to improvements in many areas of education, including nutrition, health, connectedness and engagement of students. While considerable research has been conducted in other parts of the world, research in Australia provides limited understanding of the impact of SBGs. The aim of this paper is to give a reflective viewpoint on the impact of SBGs in Australia from the perspective of an Aboriginal philosophical approach called Dadirri. The philosophy highlights an Australian Aboriginal concept, which exists but has different meanings across Aboriginal language groups. This approach describes the processes of deep and respectful listening. The study uses photovoice as a medium to engage students to become researchers in their own right. Using this methodology, students have control over how they report what is significant to them. The use of photovoice as a data collection method is contextualised within the Aboriginal philosophical approach to deep listening. For the first author, an Aboriginal researcher (Clague), the journey is to find a research process that maintains cultural integrity and resonates with the participants by affirming that a culturally sensitive approach to learning is important.

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“…The potential of network effects is particularly large where community ownership of health promotion extends to integrating strategies into practice and policies of community institutions. For example, integration of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program kitchen and garden lessons into school curricula Yeatman et al 2014) or the potential for policy integration of early childhood movement guidelines into early childhood care settings (Okely et al 2017).…”

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Robust cross-country comparison of children meeting 24-HR movement guidelines: an odds solution for binary effect efficiency measures

Eckermann

Willan

Okely

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J Public Health (Berl.)

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Aim International comparisons of public health measures relative to observed best practice are increasingly important for evaluating community health promotion strategies and policies such as meeting or not meeting public health guidelines. This study aimed to identify methods enabling robust evaluation with such binary effect measures at a population level. Subject and methods Conventional efficiency comparisons of binary effect proportions are problematic due to a lack of consistency with alternate framing of resulting relative risks. In this paper, we illustrate such inconsistent efficiency measures comparing the proportion of school age children (9–11 years) meeting or not meeting integrated movement guidelines (IMGs) across the 12 countries from the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) study. IMGs jointly consider physical activity, sleep and sedentary behaviours. An odds method is developed to enable consistent efficiency comparison with alternative framing of binary effects. Results A novel odds solution to relative risk problems arising with conventional efficiency comparison of binary effects with alternative framing is shown to provide consistent efficiency measures relative to best practice. Furthermore, this technical advancement is shown to extend to consistent indirect comparison and evidence translation. Conclusion Robust methods for international cross-country comparison of binary effect measures such as meeting or not meeting guidelines are identified with a novel odds ratio method. This novel solution is particularly important for health promotion evaluation of IMGs given the need for consistent comparison in evaluating practice evidence of what works now and consistent evidence translation of treatment effects as and when they emerge.

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Combining Realism with Rigour: An Evaluation of a National Kitchen Garden Program in Australian Primary Schools

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Learning from the success of tobacco control: how to leverage ideas, interests, and institutions to reduce red meat consumption

Learning from the success of tobacco control: how to leverage ideas, interests, and institutions to reduce red meat consumption

Thinking Outside the Circle: Reflections on Theory and Methods for School-Based Garden Research

Robust cross-country comparison of children meeting 24-HR movement guidelines: an odds solution for binary effect efficiency measures

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