School of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW2308, Australia.
Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW2308, Australia.
Nutr Res Rev. 2022 Dec;35(2):181-196. doi: 10.1017/S0954422421000111. Epub 2021 Apr 30.
Primary schools contribute to promoting healthy eating behaviour and preventing overweight and obesity by providing nutrition education. Research highlights the importance of improving teachers' programme implementation to enhance intervention effectiveness. An integrative approach has been suggested to reduce time barriers that teachers currently experience in teaching nutrition. This scoping review explores use and effectiveness of integrative teaching in primary-school-based nutrition education programmes. Six databases were searched for primary-school-based interventions on nutrition education. Papers reporting on integration of nutrition topics within core curriculum were included. Abstracts and full texts of potentially relevant articles were screened to determine eligibility. Next, data were extracted and tabulated. Findings were collated and summarised to describe intervention characteristics, subject integration and effectiveness of the included programmes. Data describing integration of nutrition into the primary school curriculum were extracted from 39 eligible papers. Nutrition education programmes often involve lessons about food groups and are frequently embedded within the mathematics, science or literacy syllabus. Although articles report on the integration of nutrition, the use of this approach was not commonly described in detail. Only seven papers discussed student outcomes related to the integration of nutrition education within core subjects. The ability to draw strong conclusions about school-based nutrition intervention effectiveness is limited by the current lack of programme description and methodological issues. Hence, more research is warranted to inform evidence on effectiveness of integrative nutrition education for both teacher and student outcomes. Future studies that include greater detail regarding the integrative approach are needed.
小学可以通过提供营养教育来促进健康的饮食习惯，预防超重和肥胖。研究强调了提高教师实施计划的重要性，以增强干预效果。有人建议采用综合方法来减少教师在教授营养时目前面临的时间障碍。本范围综述探讨了在基于小学的营养教育计划中综合教学的使用和效果。在六个数据库中搜索了基于小学的营养教育干预措施。包括报告将营养主题纳入核心课程的整合的论文。筛选摘要和可能相关文章的全文以确定合格性。然后，提取和制表数据。将研究结果整理和总结，以描述干预措施的特征、学科整合以及所包括方案的效果。从 39 篇合格论文中提取了将营养纳入小学课程的资料。营养教育计划通常涉及关于食物组的课程，并且经常嵌入在数学、科学或读写课程中。尽管文章报告了营养的整合，但这种方法的使用并没有详细描述。只有七篇文章讨论了与将营养教育纳入核心学科相关的学生成果。由于目前缺乏方案描述和方法学问题，因此很难对基于学校的营养干预效果得出强有力的结论。因此，需要更多的研究来为教师和学生成果的综合营养教育效果提供证据。需要进行更详细地描述综合方法的未来研究。
