Implementation of Guidelines for Healthier Canteens in Dutch Secondary Schools: A Process Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: The Netherlands Nutrition Centre has developed 'Guidelines for Healthier Canteens'. To facilitate their implementation, implementation tools were developed: stakeholders' questionnaires, the 'Canteen Scan' (an online tool to assess product availability/accessibility), a tailored advisory meeting/report, communication materials, establishment of an online community, newsletters, and a fact sheet with students' wishes/needs. In this quasi-experimental study, we investigated the effect of these tools in secondary schools on (a) factors perceived by stakeholders as affecting implementation; (b) the quality of implementation. For six months, ten intervention schools implemented the guidelines, supported by the developed implementation tools. Ten control schools received the guidelines without s

SUBMITTER: Evenhuis IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887932 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature