IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i4p1257-d321119.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Garden-Based Integrated Intervention for Improving Children’s Eating Behavior for Vegetables

Author

Listed:
  • Seon-Ok Kim

    (Department of Bio and Healing Convergence, Graduate School, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea)

  • Sin-Ae Park

    (Department of Bio and Healing Convergence, Graduate School, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea
    Department of Environmental Health Science, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea)

Abstract

This study was conducted to develop and verify the effects of a garden-based integrated intervention for improving children’s eating behavior for vegetables. A pre-pos t -test experimental design was employed. The participants were 202 elementary school students (average age: 11.6 ± 1.5 years). The garden-based integrated intervention program was conducted during regular school hours for a total of 12 weeks. The program, based on a mediator model for improving children’s eating behavior, included gardening, nutritional education, and cooking activities utilizing harvests. In order to examine effects of the program, the mediating factors related to children’s eating behavior were evaluated using pre-post questionnaires. As a result of the program, dietary self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, gardening knowledge, nutrition knowledge, vegetable preference, and vegetable consumption were significantly increased, and food neophobia was significantly decreased. In addition, there were positive correlations between most mediating factors. Thus, the garden-based integrated intervention developed in this study was effective in improving children’s eating behavior for vegetables.

Suggested Citation

  • Seon-Ok Kim & Sin-Ae Park, 2020. "Garden-Based Integrated Intervention for Improving Children’s Eating Behavior for Vegetables," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(4), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:4:p:1257-:d:321119
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/4/1257/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/4/1257/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Pepijn Schreinemachers & Mamounata Sandaogo Ouedraogo & Serge Diagbouga & Amadou Thiombiano & Serge Rodrigue Kouamé & Caroline Makamto Sobgui & Hsiao-Pu Chen & Ray-Yu Yang, 2019. "Impact of school gardens and complementary nutrition education in Burkina Faso," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 132-145, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Trias Mahmudiono & Triska Susila Nindya & Qonita Rachmah & Calista Segalita & Luh Ade Ari Wiradnyani, 2020. "Nutrition Education Intervention Increases Fish Consumption among School Children in Indonesia: Results from Behavioral Based Randomized Control Trial," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-14, September.
    2. Nuno Aluai Carvalho & Maria da Conceição Martins, 2024. "Education to Promote Healthy and Sustainable Eating Habits: A Bibliometric Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-14, November.
    3. Ha-Ram Kim & Seon-Ok Kim & Sin-Ae Park, 2021. "The Effects of Horticultural Activity Program on Vegetable Preference of Elementary School Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(15), pages 1-17, July.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Michael Takudzwa Pasara & Steven Henry Dunga, 2022. "Value Chains And Climate Change Mitigation Strategies: A Case Of Nutritional Gardens In Zimbabwe," Eurasian Journal of Business and Management, Eurasian Publications, vol. 10(1), pages 62-75.
    2. Junuthula, Shirisha & Kumari, Veenita & Srinivasan, Chittur, 2023. "Identification of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA) Knowledge Gaps in the Integration of Nutrition into Training by Agricultural Extension Advisory Services (EAS) Providers in India," 97th Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2023, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 334565, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.
    3. Ha-Ram Kim & Seon-Ok Kim & Sin-Ae Park, 2021. "The Effects of Horticultural Activity Program on Vegetable Preference of Elementary School Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(15), pages 1-17, July.
    4. Joy Mauti & Isabel Mank & Jan-Walter De Neve & Guillaume Alfred Gyengani & Paul-André Somé & Sachin Shinde & Wafaie Fawzi & Till Bärnighausen & Alain Vandormael, 2021. "The Food and Health Environment in Junior Secondary Schools in Urban Burkina Faso: A Cross-Sectional Study of Administrators, Food Vendors and Early Adolescents," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(23), pages 1-16, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:4:p:1257-:d:321119. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.