Newsletter
Contact
The Policy Legislation and Nutrition (PLAN) study will examine the impact of state and local policies on the school nutrition environment and on the students’ dietary behaviors. Data will be collected from 64 rural and urban middle schools in Washington State, stratified by income level and ethnicity. Data will include policy quality, policy implementation, inventories of the foods available at each school, and dietary intake and will be analyzed to determine what factors are associated with a successful implementation of a policy by schools and associations between access to food at school and student diets.
Start Date: June 2006
ID #: 57932
Principal Investigator: Donna Johnson, RD, PhD
Organization: University of Washington
Funding Round: Round 1
Keywords: Competitive foods, Fruits and vegetables, Nutrition standards, Rural, School wellness policies, Snacks, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Urban, Vending machines
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Race/Ethnicity: Multi-racial/ethnic
Focus Area: School & After School
State: Washington
Age Group: Young adolescents (grades 6 to 8)
Related Research
September 2009
Impact of School District Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies on Student Beverage Exposure and Consumption in Middle Schools
This paper finds that school district policies related to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and exposure to SSB in middle schools were significant predictors of student SSB consumption. The paper describes the association between: 1) exposure to SSBs in middle school and student consumption of SSB at schools and 2) school district SSB policies and exposure to MoreSeptember 2009
Development and Validation of a Beverage and Snack Questionnaire for Use in Evaluation of School Nutrition Policies
This paper demonstrates that a 19-item beverage and snack questionnaire (BSQ) developed by researchers can effectively capture data on consumption of targeted foods as well as more lengthy food records. The questionnaire was developed and validated for use among adolescents to evaluate school nutrition policies and assess consumption of specific foods targeted by these policies. MoreJuly 2009