Food literacy predictors and associations with physical and emergent literacy in pre-schoolers: results from the Training-to-Health Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food literacy (FL) is a crucial need encompassing basic literacy and fundamental movement skills. The present study aimed to investigate the FL level in pre-schoolers and to evaluate the effect of potential predictors and the associations with gross motor and emergent literacy skills.

Design

Cross-sectional study conducted within the Training-to-Health Project.

Setting

Kindergartens (n 21) in the Palermo City Council, Italy.

Participants

Pre-school children aged 3-6 years (n 921) followed education sessions on nutritional topics, practical activities and compiled prearranged sheets. FL was assessed by the five-domain toolkit 'preschool-FLAT'; gross motor and emergent literacy skills were assessed by the Italian version of the gross motor development t

SUBMITTER: Tabacchi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10201352 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature