Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption: Methodological protocol of a randomized controlled community trial.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to develop community educational activities in Brazilian primary health care settings. A randomized controlled community trial was conducted to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption (FV-RCT) in a representative sample of consumers aged 20 years or older in a Brazilian city. The fruit and vegetable consumption was classified according to the transtheoretical model's stages of change, reflecting different degrees of readiness for change. The educational activities were based on the transtheoretical model and a problematizing-dialogic pedagogy, planned by an interdisciplinary team, using information collected in a qualitative pilot study. The actions were conducted over seven months, and baseline data were collected from 1483 participants. The educational strategies inclu

SUBMITTER: Menezes MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6275150 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature