Integrating nutrition education into the primary school curriculum in India

Devadas, R. P.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3182(78)80052-1

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“…Their findings provide evidence for the effectiveness of integrative teaching on students' academic performances. In addition, all programmes, except for one (59) , reported a positive impact of integrative nutrition education on children's nutrition knowledge (40,50,70) . Despite these promising findings, the programmes had large methodological differences, which prevents comparison and limits interpretation of the effectiveness in regard to nutrition knowledge.…”

Section: Integration-related Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The longest intervention length was 2 years, compared with the shortest intervention trial of 3 weeks. Additionally, twelve studies included only an education intervention component (40,45,(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)58,59,63,67,(69)(70)(71)(72) , whilst sixteen studies were part of a larger intervention involving multiple components (e.g. school garden, school policies, parental involvement, school canteens) (31,(41)(42)(43)(44)46,(52)(53)(54)(55)(56)(57)(60)(61)(62)(64)(65)(66)68,(73)(74)(75)(76)(77) .…”

Section: Programme Study and Article Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Integration-related outcomes. Both qualitative and quantitative data were obtained from fifteen articles (40,41,43,44,(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)59,(68)(69)(70)72,77) . Programme evaluations with teachers confirmed that the content was integrated with curricular standards as intended (41,43,44,51,68,72) .…”

Section: Intervention Delivery and Teacher Training Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, two articles stated that teachers expressed the need for a more explicit connection between nutrition and core subjects (51,72) . Where studies compared the integrated approach without implementing other intervention components to usual teaching practices, some observed positive effects on nutrition-related outcomes such as nutrition knowledge (40,50,70) or healthy food choices (59) . Furthermore, multiple papers on the FoodMASTER programme provided evidence for the improvement of academic outcomes including mathematics and science knowledge as a result of the integration (47)(48)(49) .…”

Section: Intervention Delivery and Teacher Training Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This difference in findings might indicate that, when an integrative approach is used, classroom teachers are preferred over nutrition experts. Three of the studies included in this review compared the implementation of nutrition education between the classroom teacher and nutrition expert (41,70,71) . Results from these studies on the delivery of integrative nutrition lessons were inconclusive.…”

Section: Intervention Delivery and Teacher Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nutrition across the curriculum: a scoping review exploring the integration of nutrition education within primary schools

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Primary schools contribute to promoting healthy eating behaviour and preventing overweight and obesity by providing nutrition education. Research highlights the importance of improving teachers’ program implementation to enhance intervention effectiveness. An integrative approach has been suggested to reduce time barriers that teachers currently experience in teaching nutrition. This scoping review explores use and effectiveness of integrative teaching in primary school-based nutrition education programs. Six databases were searched for primary school-based interventions on nutrition education. Papers reporting on integration of nutrition topics within core curriculum were included. Abstracts and full texts of potentially relevant articles were screened to determine eligibility. Next, data were extracted and tabulated. Findings were collated and summarised to describe intervention characteristics, subject integration and effectiveness of the included programs. Data describing integration of nutrition into the primary school curriculum were extracted from 39 eligible papers. Nutrition education programs often involve lessons about food groups and are frequently embedded within the mathematics, science or literacy syllabus. Although articles report on the integration of nutrition, the use of this approach was not commonly described in detail. Only seven papers discussed student outcomes related to the integration of nutrition education within core subjects. The ability to draw strong conclusions about school-based nutrition intervention effectiveness is limited by the current lack of program description and methodological issues. Hence, more research is warranted to inform evidence on effectiveness of integrative nutrition education for both teacher and student outcomes. Future studies that include greater detail regarding the integrative approach are needed.

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Section: Integration-related Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 97%