Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Diet Quality in Children

Abstract

Our study provides further support for the success of intervention programs that aim to enhance children's dietary intake. Implementing similar interventions can be promising to support vegetable consumption and moderate sodium intake.

Using Photovoice to Improve Healthy Eating for Children Participating in an Obesity Prevention Program

“…This was less conclusive than positive results of previous obesity prevention programs. 2 , 3 , 8 It is likely small samples, which limit power, was a factor limiting the potential to detect significant changes using quantitative analyses. However, children were learning new information—about the Stop Light Diet 24 and MyPlate.…”

“…Sweets were the major roadblock to healthy eating, and this was consistent with previous research. 2 For a few boys, salty and savory treats emerged as tempting foods that blocked healthy eating. Health educators can provide coaching to help children overcome roadblocks to healthy eating.…”

“… 1 Obesity prevention programs can play a role in changing children’s attitudes and teaching them healthy behaviors. 2 - 4 School days are often busy, and after-school programs can be ideal settings for delivering programs when health is not addressed in the school curriculum. 5 The Children’s Healthy Eating and Exercise (CHEE) Program is an after-school program with a successful history of improving children’s consumption of healthy foods, with children eating more fruits, exercising more, and children and parents learning about nutrition.…”

“… 5 The Children’s Healthy Eating and Exercise (CHEE) Program is an after-school program with a successful history of improving children’s consumption of healthy foods, with children eating more fruits, exercising more, and children and parents learning about nutrition. 2 , 6 - 9 More information is needed about how children change their and their family’s eating behaviors. The current study focused on delivering and assessing the impact of healthy eating lessons using photovoice to allow children to capture change in eating behaviors.…”

Effectiveness of healthy eating interventions among children: A quantitative systematic review

“…Eight studies conducted power analyses to estimate their sample sizes, and only five (Collins et al, 2018;Correia et al, 2014 (Rosário et al, 2017), the framework of health maintenance behaviour (Evans et al, 2013), the social marketing framework (van de Gaar et al, 2014), and a conceptual process model that includes aspects of affect and cognition (de Droog et al, 2014). The details of these theories and their theoretical frameworks can be found in Supplementary Table A4.…”