A Scoping Review of Food Literacy Interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Food literacy (FL) is a rapidly emerging area of research that provides a framework to explain the interplay of food-related skills, beliefs, knowledge and practises that contribute to nutritional health and wellbeing. This review is the first to scope the current literature for FL interventions, assess their characteristics against the components provided in the most widely cited definition of FL. and describe their characteristics to identify gaps in the literature.

Methods

This review scopes original articles describing FL interventions in the Medline, CINAHL, ProQuest Education, Web of Science and AMED databases up to August 2023.

Results

Despite the heterogeneity between all seven included studies, they all demonstrated some improvements in their FL

SUBMITTER: O'Brien K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11435165 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature