Themes in Train-the-Trainer Nutrition Education Interventions Targeting Middle School Students: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Context-appropriate nutrition education interventions targeting middle school students have the potential to promote healthy dietary patters that may help prevent unnecessary weight gain at a point in childhood development when youth experience increasing agency over their food choices. The aim of this review was to identify and synthesize themes in train-the-trainer approaches, intervention content and delivery, and youth receptivity across teacher, mentor, and peer-led nutrition education interventions that targeted middle school-age youth in urban, primarily low-income settings. A systematic, electronic literature search was conducted in seven electronic databases, PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, ERIC, PsycINFO, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, and Cochrane CENTRAL, using fixed inclusion and exclusion crit

SUBMITTER: St Pierre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8398099 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature