Forecasting Your Future: Nutrition Matters Curriculum with Teacher Training Promotes Students to Try New Fruits and Vegetables.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many high school students do not consume the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.

Objective

This study evaluated student outcomes from a new nutrition curriculum that includes messages from the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans with a teacher training component for high school Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) teachers.

Methods

A cluster-randomized controlled study was conducted with 1104 students in FACS classes from 35 schools, taught by teachers trained in implementing a new curriculum (intervention) and teachers using their usual curricula (control). Students completed online surveys at the beginning and end of the semester, that is, pre- and postexposure to the nutrition curricula. Intention-to-treat analyses as hierarchical linear

SUBMITTER: Kaschalk-Woods E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7334044 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature