Making sense of healthy and sustainable food: adolescents' voices on what it means, why it matters, and future change.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing research on school food interventions aimed at promoting sustainable and healthy diets, the perspectives of adolescents regarding those interventions remain underexplored. This study explores adolescents' understanding, perceived importance, and proposed strategies for (facilitating) healthy and sustainable food choices. A mixed-methods study was conducted among 296 adolescents (aged 12-16) at four Dutch secondary schools. Data was gathered through four consecutive methods: a questionnaire, focus group discussions, classroom discussions, and a group poster assignment. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and ordinal logistic regression analyses. Qualitative data were analysed inductively through thematic analysis. Adolescents primarily associated hea

SUBMITTER: Mesch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12858370 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature