Abstract
Seventy-seven children (34 boys, 43 girls, Mean age ± SD = 9 ± 1 years) participated in this study. Forty-six children (intervention) undertook a 12 week school gardening programme and 31 children acted as controls. Measures of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and fruit and vegetable consumption were taken pre and post intervention. Repeated measures analysis of variance and hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the intervention group increased daily consumption of fruit and vegetables and increased intentions, attitudes, norms, PBC related to fruit and vegetable consumption. Attitudes, norms and PBC significantly predicted changes in fruit and vegetable consumption.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 765-773 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (VoR) - 4 Jun 2015 |
Funding
This research was partly funded by a grant from the Tanita Healthy Weight Trust. We would also like to thank Keeley Thomas for her guidance on setting up a school garden at the outset of this project.
Funders | Funder number |
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Tanita Healthy Weight Trust |
Keywords
- Theory of Planned Behaviour
- intervention
- diet
- gardening
- primary schools