Cited by 64School Health and Nursing EducationObesity, Physical Activity, DietNutrition, Health and Food Behavior

Implementing organizational changes to promote healthful diet and physical activity at school

Simons-Morton, Bruce G., Parcel, Guy S., O'Hara, Nancy M.·1988·Health Education Quarterly

Abstract

Diet and physical activity patterns appear to be learned at early ages, suggesting the need for school-based intervention. The potential of schools to improve children's diet and physical activity has been offset by countervailing school environments. In the first year of the "Go For Health" health promotion project, organizational change innovations were implemented to facilitate changes in school lunch, physical education, and classroom health education in support of healthful student diet and physical activity. At first follow-up after one year of intervention, the amount of sodium in selected foods served in school lunch was reduced from baseline (1985) to year one (1986) in the experimental schools by 29 and 33%, respectively, and fat was reduced by 28 and 42%, respectively. At first follow-up, students in the experimental schools participated in fitness activities 44.1 and 38.0% of the time, compared with 19.5 and 22.7% in the control schools.

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Authors
Simons-Morton, B. G., Parcel, G. S., & O'Hara, N. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Texas Medical Branch
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
Venue
Health Education Quarterly
Published
1988-03
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
115-130
ISSN
0195-8402 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1990273182
Cited by
63
References
21
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI
22.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Health Education Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL 33376)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
Keywords
organizational change, school health promotion, school meals, sodium reduction, dietary fat reduction, physical education, physical activity, children's diet, school environment
MeSH terms
Child, Diet, Physical Exertion, Food Services, Health Education, Health Promotion, Humans, Physical Education and Training, Schools, Texas

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