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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4060.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
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| The focus of this session is on planning and implementing policies and programs in schools to address nutrition and physical activity. Two presenters will address the importance of policies designed to limit competitive foods and beverages in schools. The findings from the study that looked at 10 districts in California show that different stakeholders approach the issue of food and beverage sales from very different perspectives, priorities, and concerns. The second presenter surveyed schools, students and food service managers. Results indicate the importance of evaluating policy implementation as well as policy impact. Parental participation, often cited as an important component in successful school-based prevention programs was investigated with focus groups. Findings indicated that getting children engaged, involving teachers, offering incentives, simplifying human subject and privacy protection implementation and reducing parents’ time commitment are likely to increase the level of parental involvement. Two other studies indicate the importance of effective implementation and evaluation of nutrition and physical activity programs in the schools. Stages of implementation on a statewide level will be discussed. Research of one study provides a prototype for assessing the organizational readiness to adopt efficacious school-based, multi-component interventions addressing youth overweight. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session the participants will be able to: 1. Identify the importance of beverage and competitive food policies in schools for improving nutrition and physical activity environments. 2. Identify successes and challenges of implementing beverage and competitive foods policies and the importance of evaluating the policies. 3. Identify major barriers to parental involvement in school-based obesity prevention programs for all students and list strategies to increase parental involvement in these programs. 4. Understand how to create and implement an evidence-based school nutrition and physical activity program. 5. Understand qualitative methods to assess organizational readiness to adopt a multi-component school based program for nutrition and physical activity. | |||
| Maria T. Wessel, EdD, CHES | |||
| Julie Gast, PhD | |||
| Meeting the challenge to control the sale of competitive foods and beverages on school campuses: Lessons learned from 10 California school districts Annie S. Vargas, MPH, Gail M. Woodward-Lopez, MPH, RD, Sarah Kim, J. Lewis, MA, RD, Patricia B. Crawford, DrPH, RD, Phyllis Bramson-Paul, MPPA | |||
| Can a beverage policy change what high school students drink? Jane J. Thompson, RD, LDN, Suet Lim, PhD, Joan Nachmani, MS, CNS, SFNS, Shortie McKinney, PhD, RD, FADA | |||
| Barriers for Parental Involvement in School-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs Jay J. Shen, PhD, Phyllis Johnson, PhD, Constance Edwards, PhD, RN, Linda F. Samson, PhD, RN, CNAA | |||
| Jump Up & Go! Healthy Choices: Statewide program implementation to improve nutrition and physical activity in Massachusetts public middle schools Sylvia Stevens-Edouard, MA, Vanessa Cavallaro, MS, RD, LDN | |||
| Understanding key influences on the adoption and sustainability of the Enhanced Healthy Choices, multi-component, school based intervention Cary K. Hardwick, MA, MSN, MS, Mary L. Greaney, PhD, Solomon Mezgebu, MSc, A.C. Lindsay, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Maria Bettencourt, MPH, Karen E. Peterson, ScD, RD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | School Health Education and Services | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Food and Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA