Department of Bio and Healing Convergence, Graduate School, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Department of Environmental Health Science, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Feb 15;17(4):1257. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041257.
This study was conducted to develop and verify the effects of a garden-based integrated intervention for improving children's eating behavior for vegetables. A pre-pos-test experimental design was employed. The participants were 202 elementary school students (average age: 11.6 ± 1.5 years). The garden-based integrated intervention program was conducted during regular school hours for a total of 12 weeks. The program, based on a mediator model for improving children's eating behavior, included gardening, nutritional education, and cooking activities utilizing harvests. In order to examine effects of the program, the mediating factors related to children's eating behavior were evaluated using pre-post questionnaires. As a result of the program, dietary self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, gardening knowledge, nutrition knowledge, vegetable preference, and vegetable consumption were significantly increased, and food neophobia was significantly decreased. In addition, there were positive correlations between most mediating factors. Thus, the garden-based integrated intervention developed in this study was effective in improving children's eating behavior for vegetables.
本研究旨在开发和验证基于花园的综合干预措施对改善儿童蔬菜食用行为的效果。采用了预测试实验设计。参与者为 202 名小学生（平均年龄：11.6±1.5 岁）。基于改善儿童饮食行为的中介模型，花园综合干预计划在正常上课时间进行，共 12 周。该计划包括园艺、营养教育和利用收获物进行烹饪活动。为了检验该计划的效果，使用预-后调查问卷评估了与儿童饮食行为相关的中介因素。由于该计划的实施，饮食自我效能感、预期结果、园艺知识、营养知识、蔬菜偏好和蔬菜摄入量显著增加，而食物恐惧症显著降低。此外，大多数中介因素之间存在正相关关系。因此，本研究中开发的基于花园的综合干预措施对改善儿童蔬菜食用行为有效。
