Children Food and Nutrition Literacy - a New Challenge in Daily Health and Life, the New Solution: Using Intervention Mapping Model Through a Mixed Methods Protocol.

Children Food and Nutrition Literacy - a New Challenge in Daily Health and Life, the New Solution: Using Intervention Mapping Model Through a Mixed Methods Protocol. J Med Life. 2020 Apr-Jun;13(2):175-182 Authors: Ahmadpour M, Omidvar N, Doustmohammadian A, Rahimiforoushani A, Shakibazadeh E Abstract Food and nutrition literacy is a fundamental and new idiom among health policymakers. Improving children's food and nutrition literacy is a fundamental task, and it requires detailed planning. The aim of this study is to design, implement, and evaluate a food and nutrition literacy promotion intervention in elementary school children based on the Intervention Mapping model. This is a sequential study to design, implement, and evaluate a food and nutrition literacy promotion intervention in elementary school children aged 10-12 years old in Baneh city (Kurdistan, Iran). The study has three sequential phases, six steps based on the Intervention Mapping model, and four sub-studies. The questionnaire was transformed and culturally adapted since it was previously built for the city of Tehran; the results of a population-based cross-sectional survey indicated that the score for understanding food and nutrition information of a sample of 390 students aged 10-12 was mostly moderate and low (90.3% of participants). Therefore, a qualitative study on how to fix existing barriers, and extract facilitators and the best methods of interventions for pr...
Source: Journal of Medicine and Life - Category: General Medicine Tags: J Med Life Source Type: research