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  • 标题:Rural Adults’ Perspectives on School Food in a North Carolina County
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  • 作者:Jayne K. Jeffries ; Linden M. Thayer ; Heidi Hennink-Kaminski
  • 期刊名称:Preventing Chronic Disease
  • 印刷版ISSN:1545-1151
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 卷号:12
  • 页码:1
  • DOI:10.5888/pcd12.140484
  • 出版社:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 摘要:To address alarming rates of youth obesity, multiple stakeholder perspectives must be understood and considered when developing nutrition interventions. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine adults' perceptions of school food in rural North Carolina and their opinions about potential changes to encourage students to eat more fruits and vegetables in school meals. We conducted semistructured key informant interviews by telephone from February through March 2013 to determine adult opinions regarding elementary school food and child health. Participants included parents, teachers, school administrators, and a cafeteria staff member. Interview transcripts were thematically analyzed using Dedoose qualitative analysis software. Four themes emerged from key informant interviews regarding school meals and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption: 1) schools are an appropriate place for nutritious food, 2) current school food is bland and unappealing, 3) school cafeterias can use simple strategies to increase fruit and vegetable intake, and 4) federal school meal guidelines are perceived as barriers to increased fruit and vegetable intake during school meals. Study findings suggest that training and support for cafeteria staff on healthy food preparation and presentation are critical and that there should be a "meeting in the middle" between child appeal and health. Nutritious and appealing school food options may have the potential to greatly increase fruit and vegetable consumption in rural elementary schools in North Carolina.
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