Burton Melissa, Wood Julie Maree, Booth Alison O, Worsley Anthony, Larsson Christel, Margerison Claire
Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Geelong, Australia.
Deakin University, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Geelong, Australia.
Appetite. 2022 Feb 1;169:105817. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105817. Epub 2021 Nov 24.
Developing healthy eating behaviours is important to assist children in maintaining good health and decrease the risk of chronic health conditions. Recent nutrition promotion efforts in Australian primary schools have mainly focused on canteen guideline compliance and obesity prevention interventions. The aim of this study was to investigate the primary school food environment, specifically, allocated lunch eating duration and the governance of children's lunch breaks. Parents (n = 402) and teachers (n = 123) were asked via an online survey, about school allocated lunch eating duration and its adequacy. Respondents were asked about the supervision, monitoring and feedback of children's lunches, as well as how they felt about these practices. Parents (n = 308) and teachers (n = 102) also responded to the open-ended question "What could be done to improve the school food environment at your school?". Ten minutes was the allocated lunch eating duration reported by most parents and teachers and 58% of those parents and 30% of those teachers rated this as inadequate. Increasing the allocated lunch eating duration was frequently cited as a way to improve the school food environment. A similar proportion of parents and teachers agreed with teachers monitoring food intake, not providing feedback on food brought to school, and that parents should decide what children eat. More parents (44%) than teachers (23%) believed that teachers should eat their own lunch with the children. These findings provide an insight into the primary school lunch environment and the views of two key stakeholder groups. School food policies should consider these findings in future revisions, particularly with regards to eating times.
培养健康的饮食行为对于帮助儿童保持良好健康状况并降低慢性健康问题的风险至关重要。澳大利亚小学近期的营养促进工作主要集中在遵守食堂准则和预防肥胖干预措施上。本研究的目的是调查小学的食物环境，具体而言，是分配的午餐用餐时间以及儿童午餐休息时间的管理情况。通过在线调查询问了402名家长和123名教师关于学校分配的午餐用餐时间及其充足性的问题。受访者被问及对儿童午餐的监督、监测和反馈情况，以及他们对这些做法的看法。308名家长和102名教师还回答了开放性问题“可以采取什么措施来改善贵校的学校食物环境？”。大多数家长和教师报告的分配午餐用餐时间为10分钟，58%的家长和30%的教师认为这是不充足的。增加分配的午餐用餐时间经常被认为是改善学校食物环境的一种方式。相似比例的家长和教师同意教师监测食物摄入量、不对带到学校的食物提供反馈，以及家长应该决定孩子吃什么。认为教师应该和孩子们一起吃自己午餐的家长（44%）比教师（23%）更多。这些发现为小学午餐环境以及两个关键利益相关群体的观点提供了见解。学校食物政策在未来修订时应考虑这些发现，特别是在用餐时间方面。
