Parents’ and Teachers’ Opinions about the School Food Policy in Belgian Flemish Nursery Schools

The partnership of parents, teachers, and schools is necessary to develop effective school food interventions. To gather parents' and teachers' opinions and perceptions about the school food policy, 884 parents and 70 teachers of preschoolers completed a questionnaire. School food policy is an issue of importance for parents and teachers: the majority agrees that schools should restrict the availability of snacks and soft drinks; however, to replace fruit juice and sugared milk drinks with sugarless alternatives will take special effort. Fruit is not always available at school, although parents would appreciate it. Parents of lower educational level are in general more permissive.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/ijerph6031268PMID 19440445PMCID 2672386
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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