Can a school-based intervention increase children's fruit and vegetable consumption in the home setting?

Charlotte Taylor, Helena Darby, Penney Upton, Dominic UPTON

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Abstract

Although previous research has shown the Food Dudes programme increases childrens fruit and vegetable consumption at school, the evidence for the effectiveness in the home setting is more equivocal. The school environment is identified as a logical setting for targeting childrens fruit and vegetable consumption; however, to produce sustainable changes in behaviour, it is equally important that interventions target consumption in the home setting
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)330-336
Number of pages7
JournalPerspectives in Public Health
Volume133
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

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