Ogbonnia Godfrey Ochonma, Udunma Olive Chjioke, Justin Agorye Ingwu, Chikezie Adolf Nwankwor, Ifeyinwa Henry-Arize
Medical ethics and compliance amongst physician groups: a self-assessed survey in a hospital in Southeast Nigeria
African health sciences
numerous schoolbased interventions used cooking gardening approaches improve dietary intake however research limited mediation effect dietary psychosocial factors link intervention increased vegetable intake particularly children lowincome racial ethnic minority us families aim examine effects texas sprouts intervention dietary psychosocial factors related intake vegetables whether psychosocial factors mediate link intervention increased intake vegetables schoolchildren lowincome racial ethnic minority us families analysis data secondary outcomes texas sprouts program 1year schoolbased gardening nutrition cooking cluster randomized controlled trial consisting elementary schools randomly assigned either texas sprouts intervention control participants 2414 third fifthgrade students lowincome racial ethnic minority us families 16 schools 8 intervention 8 control austin tx intervention group received eighteen 60minute gardening nutrition cooking student lessons outdoor teaching garden 9 monthly parent lessons throughout academic year child psychosocial dietary measures collected baseline post intervention via validated questionnaires generalized linear mixed models assessed intervention effects dietary psychosocial factors mediation analyses examined whether psychosocial factors mediated link intervention increased child vegetable intake children texas sprouts compared controls showed significant increases mean scores gardening attitudes cooking selfefficacy gardening selfefficacy nutrition gardening knowledge preferences fruit vegetables p 001 dietary psychosocial factors mediated association texas sprouts intervention child vegetable intake besides targeting dietary behaviors future schoolbased interventions also focus understanding mechanisms teaching children cook garden influence dietary psychosocial factors mediators change healthy eating behaviors