Effectiveness of a teaching unit on the willingness to consume insect-based food - An intervention study with adolescents from Germany.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of a four-lesson teaching unit titled "Entomophagy and Sustainability" on the willingness of adolescents in Germany to consume insect-based food (N = 114; M _Age = 15.77 years; SD _Age = 1.12 years; female = 58.8%). The main aim of the study was to test whether the teaching unit can induce long-term changes in selected nutritional-psychological factors (food disgust, food neophobia, food technology neophobia), attitudes, knowledge, and the willingness to consume insect-based food. For this purpose, a paper-pencil questionnaire was conducted immediately before (pre-test), immediately after (post-test), and approximately six weeks after (follow-up test) the teaching unit. Although significant changes in

SUBMITTER: Szczepanski L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583909 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature