Mir Saeed Yekaninejad, Ahmadreza Hajiheidari, Mehran Alijanzadeh, Rafat Yahaghi, Zahra Karimi, Jalal Rahmani, Nahid Yazdi, Elahe Jafari, Hashem Alijani, Narges Zamani, Razie Fotuhi, Elham Taherkhani, Zeinab Buchali, Masoume Zarenejad, Narges Mahmoudi, Najmeh Shahmahdi, Leila Poorzolfaghar, Safie Ahmadizade, Azam Shahbazkhania, Marc N Potenza, Chung-Ying Lin, Amir H Pakpour
Exploring health literacy categories among an Iranian adult sample: a latent class analysis
Scientific reports
consumption levels fruits vegetables fv among childrenadolescents low programs like schoolbased salad bars sb provide childrenadolescents increased fv access purpose study examine relationship sb use individual schoollevel factors among elementary secondary school students new orleans public schools twelve schools receiving sb units lets move salad bars schools campaign participated study selfreported data collected students n 1012 administrators n 12 food service staff n 37 school environmental data obtained direct observation generalized estimating equation regression methods used develop multilevel model including schoollevel eg length lunchtime sb marketing vending machines individuallevel eg sex food preferences nutrition knowledge effects female students higher odds using sb compared males students healthier food preferences higher odds using sb reported less healthy food preferences within multilevel model students sex healthy food preferences remained significant multilevel model assessing secondary students student encouragement toward others healthy eating schoolbased sb marketing significantly related sb use little research examined factors related schoolbased sb use findings suggest recommendations may help improve student use sbs example increasing promotion sb particularly secondary schools might encourage use among students