Process evaluation of Project Daire: a food environment intervention that impacted food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits of primary school children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Project DAIRE was a randomised-controlled, factorial design trial which aimed to improve children's health-related quality of life, wellbeing, food knowledge and dietary habits via two multi-component interventions: Nourish and Engage. Nourish was an intervention aiming to alter the school food environment, provide food-based experiences and expose pupils to locally produced foods. Engage was an age-appropriate cross-curricular food education intervention incorporating food, agriculture, nutrition science and related careers. The purpose of this study was to conduct a process evaluation to evaluate DAIRE implementation, mechanisms of impact (MOI) and context to elucidate trial results, and inform scalable implementation of the DAIRE approach for successful future rollout

SUBMITTER: Anderson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800617 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature