Promoting and sustaining health through increased vegetable and fruit consumption among European schoolchildren: The Pro Children Project

• Published in: Journal of Public Health
• Main Authors: Klepp, Knut-Inge, Rodrigo, Carmen Perez, Thorsdottir, Inga, Due, Pernille, Vaz de Almeida, Maria Daniel, Elmadfa, Ibrahim, Wolf, Alexandra, Haraldsdottir, Johanna, Brug, Johannes, Sjostrom, Michael, Yngve, Agneta, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2010
• Subjects: Vegetables; Fruit; Child; Health Promotion; Diet Surveys; Diet; Europe; Schools; Agneta; Inga; Norway; Perez; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/110600; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-004-0095-5

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field The Pro Children consortium consists of the following partners: Knut-Inge Klepp (Coordinator), Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway; Carmen Perez Rodrigo, Unidad de Nutricion Comunitaria, Bilbao, Spain; Inga Thorsdottir, Unit for Nutrition Research, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland; Pernille Due, Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Maria Daniel Vaz de Almeida, Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Ibrahim Elmadfa and Alexandra Wolf, Institute of Nutrition, University of Vienna, Austria; Jóhanna Haraldsdóttir, Research Department of Human Nutrition, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Johannes Brug, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, The Netherlands; Michael Sjöström and Agneta Yngve, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium. The Pro Children study is designed to assess vegetable and fruit consumption and determinants of the consumption patterns among European school children and their parents. A second objective is to develop and test strategies for promoting increased consumption of vegetables and fruits among school children and their parents. Subjects and methods Surveys of national, representative samples of 11-year-old school children and their parents were conducted in nine countries during October–November 2003, i.e. in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Comprehensive school-based educational programmes were developed and tested in three settings, i.e. in the Bilbao region, Spain, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and in Buskerud county of Norway. A 24-h recall format and frequency items assessing regular intake were used to assess vegetable and fruit ...