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Effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention to enhance implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools: a randomised controlled trial
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BACKGROUND: The implementation of school nutrition policies, which govern the provision of food in schools, is recommended as a public health strategy to support the development of healthy dietary behaviours in school-aged children. Despite this, research internationally and in Australia indicates that few schools implement such policies. This study aims to examine whether a theoretically designed, multi-strategy intervention was effective in increasing the implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools. METHODS: A parallel group randomised controlled trial was conducted with all government and Catholic primary schools within one region in New South Wales, Australia who had an operational canteen that provided food to primary school aged children (5-12 years) and were not currently receiving an intervention to change their canteen practices. Schools randomised to the intervention arm received a 9-month multicomponent intervention including ongoing support, provision of resources, performance monitoring and feedback, executive support and recognition. The primary outcomes were the proportion of the schools with a canteen menu that: i) did not include 'red' or 'banned' items according to the healthy canteen policy; and ii) had more than 50 % 'green' items. The primary outcome was assessed via menu audit at baseline and follow up by dietitians blinded to group allocation. RESULTS: Fifty-three eligible schools were randomised to either the intervention or control group (28 intervention; 25 control). Analyses with 51 schools who returned school menus found that intervention schools were significantly more likely relative to control schools to have a menu without 'red' or 'banned' items (RR = 5.78 (1.45-23.05); p = 0.002) and have at least 50 % of menu items classified as green (RR = 2.03 (1.01-4.08); p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: This study found that a multi-component intervention was effective in improving primary schools' compliance with a healthy canteen policy. Given the lack of evidence regarding how best to support schools with implementing evidence-based policies to improve child diet, this trial for the first time provides high quality evidence to practitioners and policy makers seeking to improve nutrition policy implementation in schools. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial was prospectively registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12614001148662 ) 30th October 2014.
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“For example, among 10 studies reporting the proportion of schools implementing a targeted policy, practice, or program versus a minimal or usual practice control, the median unadjusted effect size was 16.2%, ranging from –0.2% to 66.6%.”
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“Seventeen of the included studies were assessed as high risk [26, 28, 37, 41, 43, 44, 46–49, 52, 54–56, 58, 66, 67] and seven studies were assessed as low risk of detection bias [27, 42, 51, 53, 60, 62, 63].”
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“Ten studies were assessed as low risk of selective reporting as a trial registration or a published protocol paper was identified and all a priori determined outcomes were reported [26, 44, 51, 53, 54, 60, 62–64, 67].”
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“There was consistent evidence of large effects from Australian randomized trials demonstrating improvement in the availability of healthy foods at school canteens [53, 62, 63].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nathan, N., Yoong, S. L., Sutherland, R., Reilly, K., Delaney, T., Janssen, L., Robertson, K., Reynolds, R., Chai, L. K., Lecathelinais, C., Wiggers, J., & Wolfenden, L.
- Affiliations
- Hunter Medical Research Institute (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Nathan, Nicole
- ORCID
- Venue
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Published
- 2016-10-07
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 106-106
- ISSN
- 1479-5868 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5054617
- OpenAlex
- W2529378100
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 13.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Hunter Medical Research Institute
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › School Health and Nursing Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- policy implementation, multicomponent intervention, elementary school, school nutrition policy, executive support, school food environment
- MeSH terms
- Australia, Child, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Diet, Feeding Behavior, Female, Food, Food Services, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, New South Wales, Public Health, School Health Services, Schools, Health Behavior, Nutrition Policy
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