A Low-Cost, Grab-and-Go Breakfast Intervention for Rural High School Students: Changes in School Breakfast Program Participation Among At-Risk Students in Minnesota.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evaluate the impact of a grab-and-go component embedded within a larger intervention designed to promote School Breakfast Program (SBP) participation.

Design

Secondary data analysis.

Setting

Rural Minnesota high schools.

Participants

Eight schools were enrolled in the grab-and-go only intervention component. An at-risk sample of students (n = 364) who reported eating breakfast ≤3 d/wk at baseline was enrolled at these schools.

Interventions

Grab-and-go style breakfast carts and policies were introduced to allow all students to eat outside the cafeteria.

Main outcome measures

Administrative records were used to determine percent SBP participation (proportion of non-absent days on which fully reimbursable meals were received) for each stud

SUBMITTER: Larson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807125 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature