Health Education: Volume 119 Issue 2

Qualitative insight into primary school children’s nutrition literacy

Stefania Velardo, Murray Drummond

Health literacy is a key international public health goal. Conceptualising health literacy as an asset highlights the importance of fostering a health literate youth for the…

Volition and motivations influence on weight maintenance

Peter Elsborg, Johan Bundgaard Nielsen, Gertrud Ursula Pfister, Vivian Dümer, Anette Jacobsen, Anne-Marie Elbe

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the psychological constructs volition and motivation influence successful and unsuccessful weight maintainers’ experiences during the…

Elementary school teachers’ behavioral intentions for healthy nutrition: Extending theory of planned behavior

Huseyin Ates

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of elementary school teachers’ psychological factors on their behavioral intentions for healthy nutrition in their daily life…

Parents’ and teachers’ critique of nutrition education in Indian secondary schools

Neha Rathi, Lynn Riddell, Anthony Worsley

Nutrition education plays a significant role in inculcating lifelong healthy dietary behaviours among adolescents. The purpose of this paper is to understand the opinions of…

Adolescents’ learning and experiences of solving the need for dietary supplementation through socioscientific issue (SSI) method

Sirpa Kärkkäinen, Anu Hartikainen-Ahia, Anna-Liisa Elorinne, Johanna Hokkanen, Katri Hämeen-Anttila

The purpose of this paper is to assess the socioscientific issue (SSI) method as a way of improving seventh graders’ nutrition know-how on dietary supplements (DS), and to…