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Costarelli, Vassiliki; Michou, Maria; Svoronou, Eleni; Koutava, Nancy; Symvoulidou, Marina; Anastasiou, Katia; Abeliotis, Konstadinos – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objectives: Healthy and sustainable eating should be encouraged in children. This study aimed to create, apply and evaluate the effectiveness of a specially designed, school-based educational programme to promote healthy and sustainable eating in children. Design: Pilot, school-based educational intervention, aimed at promoting health and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Child Health, Intervention, Elementary Schools
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Yoshii, Emi; Akamatsu, Rie; Ishihara, Yoko; Izumi, Betty – Health Education Journal, 2021
Background: Children's participation in cooking activities at home may have positive effects on diet quality. In Japan, schools are the primary site for food education, which includes cooking. Very few studies have assessed the impact of school-based cooking programmes on children's participation in cooking activities at home. Objective: The…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Farewell, Charlotte V.; Maiurro, Emily; Powers, Jamie; Puma, Jini – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: The Healthy Environment Project (HEP) was designed to improve familiarity with attitudes, confidence and knowledge related to health-promoting best practices, as well as the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment best practice change in diverse early childhood education settings. Design: Pre-post study design…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Best Practices, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education
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Saha, Sanjoy; Dawson, John; Murimi, Mary; Dodd, Sara; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: To increase nutrition knowledge, fruit and vegetable preference, eating and cooking self-efficacy among 3rd- to 5th-grade students after a 6-week school-based nutrition education intervention. Design: Quasi-experimental pre-post design. Setting: Title I elementary schools, South Plains, West Texas. Method: A nutrition education…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Health Promotion
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Tsakpounidou, Kalliopi; Loutrari, Ariadne; Tselekidou, Freideriki; Baskini, Maria; Proios, Hariklia – Health Education Journal, 2020
Background: Stroke is a worldwide leading cause of disability, and around 50 million people are affected by stroke annually. Public stroke educational and awareness programmes can make a great deal of difference. Young children are in key position to seek urgent medical care if grandparents suffer a stroke, as grandparents are often their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Role Playing, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Smith, Leanne; Blinkhorn, Fiona A.; Blinkhorn, Anthony S.; Hawke, Fiona – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: To systematically review evidence for interventions to prevent early childhood caries (ECC) in Indigenous children in high-income countries. Search strategy: In November 2016, we searched Medline (from 1946), Embase (from 1980), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), PubMed (from 1996) and the Cumulative Index to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Disease Control, Prevention, Dental Health
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Efstathiou, Nicholas T.; Risvas, Grigorios S.; Theodoraki, Eleni-Maria M.; Galanaki, Evangelia P.; Zampelas, Antonios D. – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between classroom psychological climate and the physical and sedentary behaviour of primary school students after the implementation of an innovative education programme regarding nutrition and physical activity. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Study…
Descriptors: Health Education, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Wiseman, Nicola; Harris, Neil; Lee, Patricia – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Early childhood is considered a window of opportunity for lifestyle interventions, as this is a critical life-stage at which children accumulate knowledge and skills around behaviours such as eating and physical activity. This study examined how exposure to a settings-based healthy lifestyle programme influences knowledge and preference…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Life Style, Intervention, Preschool Children