Developing and using a School Menu Healthiness Assessment Tool to analyse school food provision in Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To design and develop a new, innovative and valid School Menu Healthiness Assessment Tool that is suitable for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of school food and drink provision. Second, to analyse primary and secondary school menus and price lists pan-Wales to ascertain their healthiness and whether free school meal (FSM) eligible pupils can afford to access healthy, nutritious food across the school day.

Design

Codable items and categories of school food and drink provision were operationalised before the tool underwent iterative development and testing. Then, cross-sectional content analysis of publicly available documents detailing school food provision (i.e. menus and price lists) was done.

Setting

Primary and secondary schools in Wales, UK.<

SUBMITTER: Gilmour A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822622 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature