...Effat Hatefnia; Esmat Hossini; Mitra Rahimzadeh Purpose Using the PRECEDE model, the purpose of this paper is to determine the predictors of mothers’ performance in daily consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) in rural preschoolers. Design/methodology/approach This study was carried out...

...Makoto Ohtsuki; Katsumi Shibata; Tutomu Fukuwatari; Yuko Sasaki; Kunihiko Nakai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of an educational intervention to increase vegetable consumption by university students. Design/methodology/approach This study is an open, parallel...

...Silke Mittmann; Anja Austel; Thomas Ellrott Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the Cancer Society of Lower Saxony’s school-based nutrition education programme “5-a-day for kids”, designed to increase children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. Intervention...

... in changes in parents' knowledge, attitude, self‐confidence, and behaviours related to both their and their child's nutrition in relation to fruit and vegetable intake. Design/methodology/approach This study used a quasi‐experimental pre‐test/post‐test design in which parent centers were selected...

... interventions which aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among primary school children. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes how information drawn from relevant literature and theory, as well as additional data collected from primary school children, their parents...

...Evelien Reinaerts; Jascha de Nooijer; Angélique van de Kar; Nanne de Vries Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore individual and social factors that are associated with children's F&V (fruit and vegetable) intake in order to develop a school‐based intervention to increase their F...

...Helen Burchett This paper aimed to identify the key elements that should be included in a fruit and vegetable‐promoting programme in British primary schools. Such a programme could be used in healthy schools schemes or “five‐a‐day” programmes. Five US school intervention studies were analysed...