Exploring Australian children's perceptions of a school-provided lunch model using a story completion method.

ABSTRACT: Children in Australia currently bring a packed lunch to school from home. Many children are not consuming a healthy diet at school. There is interest from key stakeholders (e.g. education and the non-government sector, food service and parents/caregivers) to transform the Australian system to a school-provided model to improve children's diets, reduce parental burden and address food insecurity. To facilitate a successful transition to this system, it is important to consider the views of the children. We aimed to explore Australian primary school children's perceptions of a hypothetical school-provided lunch model. To achieve this aim, we undertook a qualitative study using the story completion method. Twenty-one grade-five children, from one public primary school in South Australia, part

SUBMITTER: Coulls E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10547368 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature