Papass clinical trial protocol: a multi-component school-based intervention study to increase acceptance and adherence to school feeding.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:One of the largest school feeding programs in the world is the National School Feeding Program of Brazil. However, results from the 2012 National School Health Survey indicated that only 22.8% of 9th grade students in Brazilian public school system consumed school meals. The literature presents few studies aiming to promote healthy food consumption in the school environment from interventions, which found inconclusive results. Thus, this study aims to present a protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-component school-level interventions to increase adherence and acceptance to school feeding. METHODS:School-based multi-component clinical trial with students from 4th-9h grade from 3 municipal schools of Sumidouro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2019. The study design will be p

SUBMITTER: Pinto RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896593 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature