Duduzile P Mashinini, Kieran J Fogarty, Rachel C Potter, James D Berles
Geographic hot spot analysis of vaccine exemption clustering patterns in Michigan from 2008 to 2017
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promoting pulse consumption schools could improve students healthy food choices pulses described legumes rich protein micronutrients important food choice health wellbeing however canadians consume little pulsebased food pilot study sought investigate outcomes teacherled schoolbased food literacy intervention focused pulses make perfect sense pmps program 2 high schools saskatoon saskatchewan high schools selected using convenience sampling technique similar sociodemographic characteristics mean age students 16 years intervention comprised 7 key themes focused pulses included defining pulses health nutritional benefits pulses incorporating pulses meals role pulses reducing environmental stressors food insecurity malnutrition product development taste testing sensory analysis pulses around world selfadministered questionnaire used assess knowledge attitudes practices barriers regarding pulse consumption students baseline study end teachers interviewed end intervention descriptive statistics nonparametric mannwhitney u test used analysis total 41 32 students participated baseline studyend assessments respectively baseline median knowledge score 9 attitude score 6 barrier score 0 study end median knowledge score 10 attitude score 7 barrier score 1 lower score barriers indicated fewer barriers pulse consumption significant difference baseline studyend scores knowledge p05 barriers pulse consumption included parents cooking consuming pulses home participants liking taste pulses participants often preferring food choices pulses teachers indicated pulse foodliteracy teaching resources informative locally available easy use despite improvements knowledge attitude practice pulse consumption change significantly end intervention future studies larger samples needed determine impact pmps knowledge attitude practice high school students